Parma Heights police use grappler to end pursuit; sovereign citizen arrested

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Parma Heights, OH - It is the latest advancement in law enforcement, and the Grappler Police Bumper played a major role in bringing a stop to a police chase in suburban Cleveland over the weekend.

Police in Parma Heights say the pursuit was set into motion when an officer pulled over a car with dark tinted windows and a tag that read, “Moorish National Republic Federal Government.

Investigators say the driver refused to cooperate with the officer or even acknowledge his authority.

Authorities would later conclude that the woman behind the wheel, 31-year-old Nia McLin of Chicago, is a so-called sovereign citizen.

“There’s not necessarily a dead giveaway, but some of the things this officer noticed were her responses, citing that she did not recognize the officer’s authority. She was citing different titles and codes that were not Ohio law or law that the Supreme Court had ruled on,” said Parma Heights Police Sergeant Eric Taylor.

What McLin did not know was that just before she fled from the traffic stop, an officer, suspecting that she might run, had placed a small device called a Terminator under one of her rear tires.

The tire quickly went flat, but that did not stop McLin from running from police on three tires.

In response to the threat to public safety, Parma Heights police asked for help from neighboring Parma police because of a specialized piece of equipment they are using called the Grappler Police Bumper.

The cutting-edge technology allows officers to deploy netting and straps from their bumper, that are directed under the rear wheels of the vehicle being pursued and bring it to a stop.

On Sunday, the device worked as it was designed and brought a safe conclusion to the pursuit of McLin’s car.

On police dash camera video obtained by FOX 8, McLin’s car is shown coming to a sudden stop and the officer then told dispatchers, “good grapple, good grapple!”

“Part of the strategy is to stop them before they get too far into the pursuit. Stop them early before the speeds get out of hand, before it gets onto the highway, before it gets into the residential areas,” Parma Police Chief James Blair told FOX 8. “The longer it lasts, the more in danger the public is, the more in danger the officers are.”

Police bodycam video shows McLin being ordered out of the car at gunpoint, and under the law that sovereign citizens refuse to acknowledge or obey, she was arrested and charged with fleeing and eluding.

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re somebody that has a sovereign citizen mindset or not, we treat everybody that we come into contact with the same across the board as an agency,” said Sgt. Taylor.

During an appearance in Parma Municipal Court, bond for the 31-year-old McLin was set at $100,000.