An Illinois man is in the Berrien County Jail after a police chase in northern Indiana and southern Berrien County. Indiana officers were chasing 33-year-old Mark Jenkins of Blue Island in LaPorte County and as they were turning around in New Buffalo at Exit 1, they saw he had crashed into a sign post in front of the McDonald’s. Jenkins got away from that scene and allegedly stole a pickup truck before being caught by a Grand Beach police officer at a car wash in the city of New Buffalo around 10 a.m. today. Along with Hobart police and the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana, Grand Beach, New Buffalo, Pokagon Tribal police and the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department were involved in making the arrest.
