Man stopped by Taser on University of Michigan Diag facing charges

ANN ARBOR, MI - A man who was captured by police after a chase on the University of Michigan Diag now faces charges for unarmed robbery and assaulting, resisting or obstructing police.

Dayna Bosley, 18, was charged on March 18 with three counts of resisting, assaulting or obstructing police in connection with a police chase incident on March 16, online court records show. He also was charged on Monday with two counts of unarmed robbery and one count of assault for an incident on Feb. 27.

Police believe the Ann Arbor Township man - previously described as a Detroit man due to varying addresses - worked with two other area teens to assault and rob an acquaintance on Feb. 27 behind the Bell Tower Hotel, 300 S. Thayer St., after running into him and agreeing to smoke marijuana behind a dumpster.

The other teens, 18-year-old Charles Bassett-Kennedy of Pittsfield Township and 17-year-old Kevin Kennedy of Ann Arbor, were arrested the next day

A felony warrant was then put out for Bosley's arrest, and he was taken into custody on March 16 after police say they spotted him near South State Street and North University Avenue.

Police say Bosley ran from them onto the Diag, toward the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, where they then used a Taser to take him into custody.

Police have said the Taser was used out of concern for escalation if he got into the library, due to a criminal history. Details of a criminal record were not immediately clear, but two officers were injured in the chase, including one who hit a lamppost with his police vehicle.

Bassett-Kennedy and Kennedy are charged with two counts of unarmed robbery and one count of assault in the Feb. 27 incident. Both are being held on $10,000 cash or surety bonds and are scheduled for preliminary examinations on March 23.

Bosley is scheduled for a probable cause hearing on March 30 and a preliminary examination on April 6 in both cases against him. He is being held on a $10,000 cash or surety bond in the robbery case and 10 percent of a $10,000 bond in the assaulting, resisting or obstructing case.

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