mlive.com/with video: Driver of stolen police vehicle in high-speed chase arraigned on 7 felonies

Posted on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 : 5:23 p.m.

Ryan Elliott Cunningham of Chelsea was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on seven felonies.

From MLive.com

View video of police chase from patrol-car camera

The Chelsea man who led police on a chase topping an estimated 130 mph on Friday through three counties was charged Tuesday with seven felonies, according to a report on MLive.com.

Ryan Elliott Cunningham is charged with two methamphetamine-related charges, three firearm charges, auto theft and fleeing a police officer. He's held in the Jackson County jail on $100,000 bond.

Cunningham was arrested at a Jackson-area motel Friday for drug charges, then stole a police SUV and led police on a chase on eastbound Interstate 94 through Ann Arbor before heading south on US-23.

He was apprehended when he crashed the vehicle near the Ohio border after Michigan State Police dropped "stop sticks" in the highway near Milan.

An unedited video from the stolen police SUV shows Cunningham - wearing only underwear - leaving the parking lot of a Jackson-area motel after his initial arrest, entering eastbound I-94, weaving in and out of traffic and passing on the shoulder near Ann Arbor, then heading south on US-23 before crashing.

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