A driver had a full tank of gas in his car when he took the police on a six-hour slow-speed chase down Southern California's freeways
A 35-year-old fella by the name of Michael Zinkiewitz came prepared with a full tank of gas in his car to take the police on a six-hour slow-speed chase down Southern California’s freeways.
According to Shahan Ahmed of NBC 4 Los Angeles, the chase began sometime around seven at night after the driver refused to cooperate with the police during a traffic stop.
The police told Michael Zinkiewitz to get out. He didn’t get out. He stayed in the car, gently pressed his foot down onto the gas pedal, and then took the police on a six-hour cruise down Southern California’s freeways.
At first, the police didn’t act like they mind the slow drive down Southern California’s freeways. They just followed right on behind 35-year-old Michael Zinkiewitz with some of them even pulling over at the nearest gas station, filling up, and then rejoining the chase. But as with any chase, somebody gets tired and decides to call it quits by ending the whole thing. And due to the fact that they were heading into the wee hours of the morning, the police went ahead and ended the chase by putting out some spikes.
The first set of spikes didn’t work, but the second set of spikes flattened three of Michael Zinkiewitz tires. Sometime after one in the morning, the chase ended and the police arrested Michael Zinkiewitz and sent him on to jail.
As it turns out, Michael Zinkiewitz has two outstanding warrants on him which is what more than likely caused him to take the police on that six-hour cruise down Southern California’s freeways.
Luckily for Michael Zinkiewitz, he came across a group of officers who had sense enough to know that escalating the situation would not be for the best.
The officers picked up that Michael Zinkiewitz was more than likely not right in the head, and that the best thing for them to do was to ease on down the road until they all got to the point where they could stop on the road.
Michael Zinkiewitz’s mother, Afthemia Patsalos, said that he is not psychologically stable and she appreciates the fact that the police did not escalate the situation to the point whereby everybody would have been on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News for all the wrong reasons.
“The police department was very helpful. I’m thankful for their compassion and working with my son. I’m sorry that everyone had to go through that,” is what Afthemia Patsalos told the NBC 4 Los Angeles folks. Welp, now Michael Zinkiewitz has felony evading added to his case load which includes those two burglary charges.
Maybe he can find a lawyer to successfully argue that he wasn’t in his right mind when he allegedly committed those two burglaries and the felony evasion from the police.
According to Shahan Ahmed of NBC 4 Los Angeles, the chase began sometime around seven at night after the driver refused to cooperate with the police during a traffic stop.
The police told Michael Zinkiewitz to get out. He didn’t get out. He stayed in the car, gently pressed his foot down onto the gas pedal, and then took the police on a six-hour cruise down Southern California’s freeways.
At first, the police didn’t act like they mind the slow drive down Southern California’s freeways. They just followed right on behind 35-year-old Michael Zinkiewitz with some of them even pulling over at the nearest gas station, filling up, and then rejoining the chase. But as with any chase, somebody gets tired and decides to call it quits by ending the whole thing. And due to the fact that they were heading into the wee hours of the morning, the police went ahead and ended the chase by putting out some spikes.
The first set of spikes didn’t work, but the second set of spikes flattened three of Michael Zinkiewitz tires. Sometime after one in the morning, the chase ended and the police arrested Michael Zinkiewitz and sent him on to jail.
As it turns out, Michael Zinkiewitz has two outstanding warrants on him which is what more than likely caused him to take the police on that six-hour cruise down Southern California’s freeways.
Luckily for Michael Zinkiewitz, he came across a group of officers who had sense enough to know that escalating the situation would not be for the best.
The officers picked up that Michael Zinkiewitz was more than likely not right in the head, and that the best thing for them to do was to ease on down the road until they all got to the point where they could stop on the road.
Michael Zinkiewitz’s mother, Afthemia Patsalos, said that he is not psychologically stable and she appreciates the fact that the police did not escalate the situation to the point whereby everybody would have been on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News for all the wrong reasons.
“The police department was very helpful. I’m thankful for their compassion and working with my son. I’m sorry that everyone had to go through that,” is what Afthemia Patsalos told the NBC 4 Los Angeles folks. Welp, now Michael Zinkiewitz has felony evading added to his case load which includes those two burglary charges.
Maybe he can find a lawyer to successfully argue that he wasn’t in his right mind when he allegedly committed those two burglaries and the felony evasion from the police.
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