Teens In Stolen Car Lead Cops On High Speed Chase Down Rt. 208

GLEN ROCK, NJ – Three Union County teenagers in a stolen car led police on a high speed chase down Route 208 early Saturday morning, according to authorities.

Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said the juvenile males, who were 16 and 17, were apprehended after a brief foot chase in Paramus and charged on juvenile delinquency complaints of receiving stolen property, eluding police and resisting arrest.

The incident began just after 2:30 a.m., when Glen Rock Police Detective Sgt. James Calaski spotted a suspicious vehicle traveling along Lincoln Avenue that had a burnt-out taillight and a passenger wearing a ski mask, Ackermann said.

After further investigation revealed the car was recently reported stolen out of Elizabeth, Calaski followed the vehicle over the border into Ridgewood, where a marked Ridgewood police cruiser responded to assist, the chief said.

However, once the driver of the stolen car saw the marked police vehicle, he took off at a high rate of speed into Midland Park, Ackermann said.

Police pursued the vehicle towards Goffle Road and onto Route 208 South through Hawthorne, Glen Rock, Fair Lawn and then into Paramus on Route 4, the chief said. The driver tried to exit the highway by the Honda dealership, but he lost control of the car and all three occupants of the vehicle bailed out, Ackermann said.

Glen Rock and Paramus cops launched a foot chase and apprehended all three suspects with the assistance of a NJ State Police Aviation Unit and Bergen County Sheriff’s Office K-9 team, the chief said.

After processing at headquarters, the teens were remanded to Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center pending a hearing in family court, according to Ackermann.

The chief reported that one Glen Rock officer received a hand laceration while scaling a fence during the pursuit. The officer was later treated at Valley Hospital and released.