Woman arrested after police chase in stolen Tesla

By Dylan Siwicki, patch.com

HARPER WOODS, MI — A 20-year-old woman was arrested Monday evening after leading police on a chase in a Tesla she took for a test drive, Michigan State Police said.

Police chased the woman through multiple metro Detroit counties before finally boxing her in on Vernier Road near the I-94 service drive in Harper Woods, police said.

The Troy Police Department said employees at a dealership activated the car’s onboard tracking and reported the car stolen to police after the woman didn’t return it from a “test drive.” Read more here.

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