A bizarre encounter in the Grand Traverse Crossing parking lot led to another encounter across town that involved a 19-year-old Traverse City woman who told police she was threatened with brass knuckles.

The woman reported that she had run into people in a car that she knew at the parking lot near Planet Fitness and that they had somehow stolen $20 from her, says Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Barsheff.

The group in the car drove off, and the woman followed until they ended up in a driveway off of Cass Road at 7pm Sunday, where the woman said two of the people threatened her with brass knuckles and a third exited the vehicle carrying a baseball bat, prompting the woman to drive away and call police.

Traverse City Police tracked down the people in the car. Those suspects said that they had gone to meet someone who they had told they would sell prescription medicine for $20. They said they didn’t have any prescription medicine and instead planned to take the $20 and run.

Deputies arrested the driver of the car, a 21-year-old Williamsburg man, for being an accessory after the fact; a 17-year-old male from Traverse City for possession of brass knuckles and larceny; and an 18-year-old male from Bear Lake for possession of brass knuckles.