Forest Hill Man Leads Car Chase to Jarrettsville

Police arrested a man after his alleged involvement in a domestic dispute and car chase in Jarrettsville Monday afternoon.

Michael Lee Cox, 33, was charged with carjacking, first-degree assault and robbery, as well as several traffic violations, according to a Harford County Sheriff’s Office news release. 

Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute outside of a Forest Hill home on the 2600 block of Chestnut Hill Road shortly after 3 p.m. Monday. Cox, armed with a knife, was fighting with his girlfriend, a 26-year-old Nottingham resident, police said. He was threatening to commit suicide, police said.

Cox's girlfriend tried to escape by getting into her red 2005 Dodge Neon and locking the doors. Cox forcefully took the car keys from another family member, got into the car and drove away from the home, police said. He stopped at Walters Mill Road and Grier Nursery Road and pushed his girlfriend onto the side of the road, police said.

Cox shouted at a deputy who was approaching the car and drove away. The woman was taken to the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center by the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company with non-life threatening injuries.

Deputies began to chase Cox along Maryland Route 165. The vehicle was disabled near a BP gas station in the 1700 block of Jarrettsville Road in Jarrettsville after Cox hit a curb at high speed, police said. He was arrested and taken to the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center by the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.