FPD responds to another crash at South Main and Weiss streets

  The Frankenmuth Police were kept busy over the past weekend, with a pair of drunk driving arrests, a disorderly subject, and a two-vehicle traffic crash.

  At 9:30pm Saturday, April 26, staff members with the Bringin’ Back the 80s Fest requested on-site FPD officers to deal with a subject who was near the stage and causing a disruption.

 Staff members asked the subject, a 59-year-old Lake Odessa man, to remove his beer container from one of the band’s speakers. He was asked four times, got into a verbal altercation with them, and then FPD officers were summoned.

  Two officers interviewed the man and made the decision to remove him from Heritage Park and the Harvey Kern Community Pavilion.

  As they led him out by his arm, through the crowd of 4,000-plus attendees, the subject became physical with officers. He punched one officer directly in the eye and attempted to grab the officer’s gun when he was being handcuffed.

  He was finally subdued, arrested, and lodged in the Saginaw County Jail, initially with one felony charge, resisting and obstructing a police officer.

  However, on Monday morning, the Saginaw County Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the case and added on four more felony charges: Resisting and obstructing a police officer causing injury, resisting and obstructing a reserve officer, assault, resisting arrest causing injury, and assault with a deadly weapon.

  FPD Chief Don Mawer said the man was wearing a glove which contained metal, causing the badly bruised eye.

 In other FPD news, at 12:28am Saturday, April 26, officers on routine patrol were northbound on South Main Street, approaching Jefferson Street, when they observed a vehicle on East Jefferson Street making a very wide turn and heading north, driving erratically.

  Officers stopped the vehicle on South Main Street, near Covered Bridge Lane. The driver was a 47-year-oldd Bay City man, driving a 2023 Chevrolet Tahoe.

  During the interview, officers smelled what they believed to be intoxicating beverages emitting from the vehicle. The driver failed field sobriety tests, was taken into custody, transported to Covenant HealthCare Hospital for a blood draw, and lodged in the Saginaw County Jail, charged with operating while impaired. The vehicle was turned over to a family member to drive from the scene.

  At 2:11am Sunday, April 27, officers were westbound on King Road, near Maple Road, when they observed another westbound vehicle driving at 70 MPH in a 55 MPH zone as well as operating his vehicle in an erratic manner.. . . .

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