The Cass County Sheriff’s Department says a Dowagiac man is facing charges after hitting a police vehicle while possibly driving drunk. The department tells us a sheriff’s deputy had pulled over a vehicle that had been reported stolen out of Hartford on Saturday night. The stop was initiated around 10:30 p.m. on M51 near Van Buren Street in Wayne Township. While the sheriff’s deputy was conducting an investigation of the pulled-over driver, another vehicle came along and struck the driver’s side door of the deputy’s patrol vehicle, missing the deputy by inches. Pokagon Tribal Police, who were assisting Cass County deputies, stopped the vehicle that had just hit the cruiser. Its driver, 47-year-old Spencer Mourning, was arrested for suspicion of operating under the influence, possession of an open container, possession of marijuana, and leaving the scene of an accident. The driver of the stolen vehicle, 31-year-old Patrick McMeeken of Dowagiac, was also arrested. He’s facing charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of meth, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
