5 Teens In Stolen Car Arrested By Paramus Police After Chase On Garden State Parkway

PARAMUS, NJ — Five teens in a stolen car were arrested by Paramus police late Wednesday night after being chased through several North Jersey towns and onto the Garden State Parkway, police said.

Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said that at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday the Clifton Police Department told other police departments that they were investigating a stolen Kia K500 Stinger.

They had seen the car near the Hackensack and River Edge border, they said.

Police also said the Kia was accompanied by a Porsche that had been reported stolen from Maywood an hour earlier.

Police said the Kia had been seen traveling through River Edge, Oradell, and into Hawthorne in Passaic County.

Hawthorne police briefly tried to stop the vehicle but lost sight of it, according to Guidetti.

After 10:30 p.m., Paramus Officer Cesar Hurtado saw the Kia head onto the Garden State Parkway southbound from Oradell Avenue, police said.

Officer Michael Mordaga tried to stop the vehicle, but it fled.

Police chased the car from the Parkway onto Exit 157 and then onto the Route 20 south ramp.

Then the car hit a concrete divider and stopped, police say.

Officers Michael Cleary and Julia Koenemund, along with other police, apprehended all five teens in the Kia, police said.

The driver, a 17-year-old from Belleville, was charged with eluding, possession of stolen property, and aggravated assault with a weapon "for attempting to ram a marked patrol vehicle," police said. He was taken to a juvenile detention center, police said.

The other passengers — two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old from Passaic and a 16-year-old from Belleville — were charged with joyriding and released to their guardians.

Paramus and Maywood police are still investigating to see if the teens were involved "in related thefts," they said.