Macomb Man Kidnaps, Drugs Woman While Fleeing Police: Prosecutors

WARREN, MI — A Macomb County man is in trouble after police said he beat a woman, shoved her into his car and forced her to swallow narcotics.

Jerry Thompson, 41, from Macomb, was charged with kidnapping, third-degree fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, and assault and battery. The kidnapping charge carries a life sentence, the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said.

Thompson's bond was set at $1 million. He will have to wear a steel cuff GPS tether and stay away from the woman police said he attacked if he is bailed out. His next court hearing is Jan. 4, 2023.

Prosecutors said Thompson beat a woman at a Motel 6 on Chicago Road near Van Dyke Avenue in Warren on Sunday, Dec. 11. During the attack, the woman ran out of the motel room crying and screaming, promoting a witness to call police, officials said.

Thompson chased after the woman and eventually caught up to her, prosecutors said. He then forced her into his car and sped away from the motel, officials said.

Thompson fled the motel to 14 Mile and Schoenherr roads where he then sped away from police, prosecutors said. He then forced the woman to take some unknown narcotics, officials said.

Police then found Thompson again in Detroit, and again Thompson sped off away from police with the woman still in the car, officials said.

During the chase, Thompson crashed his car into a fence in a residential neighborhood in Detroit, officials said.

Thompson then ran away from the vehicle, leaving the woman behind in the vehicle, officials said.

Police found the woman in the abandoned vehicle and took her to a nearby hospital for treatment, officials said.

Police arrested Thompson three days later when he showed up at the hospital trying to pick up the woman, officials said.

"The defendant was a danger to the Metro Detroit area and I am thankful for the hard work of the Warren, Sterling Heights and Detroit Police Departments to arrest this man," Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido said.