A 46-year-old Detroit man leapt over the service counter at Sandusky’s Post Office on Saturday, December 3, intending to assault workers, only to be tackled and detained by one of his would-be victims.
Local 911 dispatchers received a call from the post office shortly before 10:30 a.m. last Saturday, with Sandusky Police responding and arresting the man, who had been a former federal inmate at the Sanilac County Jail. Authorities say that he was possibly suffering a mental health crisis at the time of the incident. Police Chief Brett Lester noted that the man “was fixated on returning to jail for some reason,” despite having moved back to Detroit after he was released from jail months ago.
It wasn’t until Saturday that he returned to Sanilac County, with the chief unsure how he made his way back to the area without a vehicle. The man seemed unprepared for the winter weather, wearing shorts and flip-flops at the time of the incident and only carrying a few personal items in the backpack with him, adding to puzzling nature of his trek back to Sandusky.
No injuries were reported from the incident, with Chief Lester attributing that to quick responses by both the postal employees and law enforcement, with the Sanilac County Sheriff’s Office assisting at the scene.
The man is lodged once more at the Sanilac County Jail, with charges pending arraignment.
