Stolen Car Crashed on Parkway In Hazlet; Second Car Stolen: Police

HOLMDEL, NJ — Two men and a juvenile from Essex County are in the Monmouth County jail after a weekend incident that involved the theft of two cars, one of which was stolen locally, state police reported.

At approximately 2:10 p.m. Saturday, New Jersey state troopers responded to a motor vehicle crash on the Garden State Parkway northbound at milepost 117.6 in Hazlet, according to Sgt. Philip Curry of the New Jersey State Police.

He described how events then unfolded:

While responding to the crash, troopers were advised that four suspects got out of the crashed BMW X4, which was disabled in the left lane, and fled on foot. Further investigation showed that the BMW had been reported stolen from an owner in Totowa.

After a brief search of the area, troopers located and arrested a juvenile suspect on Holmdel Road in Holmdel and were notified that the Hazlet officers located and arrested two suspects in the parking lot of Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel.

Soon after, troopers were advised that Aberdeen police were in pursuit of a green Lexus SUV that was reported stolen from a residence on Holmdel Road, allegedly by the fourth suspect.

The pursuit entered the Garden State Parkway northbound where troopers, with emergency lights and sirens on, attempted to stop the vehicle, but it failed to stop and continued traveling north.

While in pursuit of the Lexus, a state police vehicle was involved in a crash with two vehicles in the area of milepost 141.1 northbound in Union Township. The trooper sustained minor injuries and was treated and released from an area hospital. Another driver sustained minor injuries but refused medical attention.

Dayvon Savage, 24, of West Orange; Unique Woodard, 22, of Irvington; and a juvenile of Newark, were charged with receiving stolen property, joyriding, eluding and obstruction. The juvenile was additionally charged with resisting arrest and hindering apprehension, state police said.

Savage and Woodard were in the Monmouth County Jail and the juvenile suspect was in the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, pending a detention hearing, state police said.

The fourth suspect remains at large, Curry said.