ORION TOWNSHIP, MI — A case of road rage led to a drug arrest Sunday in Oakland County. Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Orion Township around 3:30 p.m. Sunday over a complaint of threats made near the intersection of Baldwin and Clarkston roads.
A driver and passenger, 43 and 47, from Oxford Township, told police at a gas station on Clarkston and Lapeer roads that another another driver tailgated their vehicle, brandished a baseball bat and “made indecent gestures with his hand and fashioning his fingers into a gun as if to shoot the victim,” according to the sheriff’s office. The suspect, a 49-year-old Orion Township man, then pinned the victim’s car between his vehicle and other cars stopped at an intersection, picked up the baseball bat and began exiting his vehicle, the victim told police. “The victim exited his vehicle and stopped the responsible from getting out of his vehicle by kicking the driver’s door shut. The responsible then drove away and was found by deputies at the Speedway Gas Station in Orion Twp,” the sheriff’s office reported after interviewing both drivers.
A baseball bat and a “measurable amount of marijuana” were found in the vehicle of the suspect, who was arrested on suspicion of felonious assault and marijuana possession, according to the sheriff’s office.
