Police: Suspect leads officers on chase, crashes into Holland home

HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — A man who was accused of assaulting his girlfriend led officers on a chase that ended in a crash at a Holland home, according to police.

Dean Isom, 31, of Holland, was charged with third-degree fleeing and eluding police, resisting and obstructing an officer, operating while intoxicated and domestic assault. Bond was set at $30,000.

Just before 9:30 p.m. Saturday, officers from the Holland Department of Public Safety were called to a home on Ramblewood Drive in the Meadow Lanes Townhomes complex for a report of a domestic assault. A 40-year-old Holland woman told arriving officers her boyfriend, Isom, had assaulted her at the home but left before police arrived.

Officers say they found Isom’s car parked nearly 4 miles away, on Cabill Drive off of M-40. When they tried to contact the driver, the suspect drove the vehicle away, onto west I-196 from M-40, officers said.

Police chased the vehicle for a few miles until it turned around in an “authorized vehicle only” crossover to continue into eastbound I-196 in the opposite direction of traffic, officers said. Police stopped chasing, because the vehicle was on the wrong side of the highway, but alerted the Allegan County Sheriff’s Office.

Later, Allegan County deputies found the vehicle on I-196 heading back to Holland. They say Isom kept going when deputies tried to pull him over, continuing into the city of Holland and to Meadow Lane Townhomes. Police say Isom sped up when he arrived at the original townhouse on Ramblewood Drive, crashing into the side of the home and the concrete steps leading to the door.

Isom was taken into custody and went to the hospital for injuries he reported from the crash. He was eventually discharged and booked into the jail.

The 40-year-old woman had minor injuries and went to the hospital on her own, police say.

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