A video that went viral this week caught a handcuffed Houdini of a woman escaping a Michigan police car through an open window and running off without the officers noticing.
On Saturday, March 28, a Muskegon Heights Police Department (MHPD) officer was conducting a patrol when they came across a vehicle parked at an abandoned business. When the officer identified a female passenger in the vehicle using a fingerprint scanner, he determined that she had an outstanding parole violation.
According to WZZM News, officers then took her into custody, handcuffed her and placed her in the rear seat of an MHPD patrol car.
While still in handcuffs, the woman managed to escape from the MHPD patrol car by slipping through a partially open window while officers were searching the suspect vehicle. She remained at-large as of late Monday, March 30.
An account called Block Paper Weekly, which posts about the goings-on in the city of Muskegon, captured the surreal escape on a Facebook Live video.
Muskegon police eventually caught up to the escape artist
On Tuesday, police re-arrested the woman who escaped custody by climbing through the open window of a police car while still in handcuffs.
In a press release, Muskegon Heights Police Chief Maurice Sain stated that someone reported a woman to police to be at an abandoned house on Tuesday morning. Around 9 a.m., police discovered it was the woman who had escaped custody inside the home in Muskegon Heights.
Officers took her to Muskegon County Jail, where Sain said the department would seek additional charges against her, including fleeing a police officer and felony home invasion.
“Muskegon Heights PD would like to thank the citizen who called in and reported the female’s location,” the press release stated.
According to her Michigan Department of Corrections file, the woman had been evading parole since January 12, 2026. In 2017, a court found her guilty of delivering or manufacturing controlled substances and imposed a minimum sentence of seven years in prison. In addition, authorities convicted her of two counts of larceny and operating while intoxicated between 2010 and 2016.