BAY CITY, MI -- A 22-year-old Bay City man is accused of drunkenly crashing into a party bus, fleeing the scene, then trying to swallow crack cocaine while in police custody.

About 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 29, police responded to a hit and run in the parking lot of Stables Martini & Cigar Bar, 804 E. Midland St. The driver of a Mobile Boogie party bus told officers she was waiting in the parked vehicle for partygoers to return when she saw a white Cadillac back out of a spot and crashed into a parked tan GMC Acadia.

The Cadillac proceeded to strike the bus, then drove off without stopping, the woman told police. She managed to get the car's license plate number, court records show.

A DJ on the bus confirmed the driver's account to police.

The bus had damage to its right side and front bumper. The Acadia sustained damage to its rear passenger side door and back quarter panel, court records show.

Police determined the Cadillac was registered to John P. Amick. A short time later, a woman called Bay County Central Dispatch to report that Amick was at a residence in the 600 block of Litchfield.

Police responded to the house and encountered Amick, who told them he had been carjacked at gunpoint and forced to drive a few strangers around. Officers told him they knew only one person had been in his vehicle, based on witnesses' statements.

At that point, Amick said he wanted a lawyer and police arrested him. Amick smelled of intoxicants and had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, arresting officers wrote in their reports.

Officers searched Amick in the jail and found a plastic wrapped containing crack cocaine in his sweatshirt pocket. The officers set the crack on a window ledge and uncuffed Amick, who immediately lunged for the rock, snatched it, and stuffed it in his mouth, court records show.

An officer took Amick to the ground and grappled with him. The officer managed to pry Amick's mouth open and have him spit out a few pieces of the crack, court records show.

On Monday, May 1, Amick appeared before Bay County District Judge Timothy J. Kelly for arraignment on single counts of possessing less than 25 grams of a narcotic or cocaine, operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, having an open intoxicant in a motor vehicle, failure to stop at a property damage accident, and failure to report an accident. The drug charge is a four-year felony; the remaining counts are all misdemeanors.

Kelly set Amick's bond at $50,000 cash-surety and set his case for a preliminary examination at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 18.