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Route 87, NY
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Driver Held For Extradition To NJ After Crash-Filled Pursuit From Bergen Ends In Westchester
UPDATE: A Connecticut driver who authorities said led officers and troopers on a high-speed chase from Bergen to Westchester counties – ramming police cars from both states along the way -- remained jailed Monday pending extradition to New Jersey. Mahwah police initially began chasing an Acura MDX driven by Henry L. Cofrancesco Jr., 51, of Hamden, CT, on southbound Route 287 last Thursday afternoon. South Nyack and New York State Police joined the pursuit at speeds that law enforcement sources said ranged from 75 to 90 miles an hour. The chase continued through Rockland County and cr…
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Authorities: Police Pursuit From NJ Ends In Westchester
UPDATE (JUNE 28): A Connecticut driver who authorities said led officers and troopers on a high-speed chase from Bergen to Westchester counties – ramming police cars from both states along the way -- remained jailed Monday pending extradition to New Jersey. Mahwah police initially began chasing an Acura MDX driven by Henry L. Cofrancesco Jr., 51, of Hamden, CT, on southbound Route 287 last Thursday afternoon. South Nyack and New York State Police joined the pursuit at speeds that law enforcement sources said ranged from 75 to 90 miles an hour. The chase continued through Rockland County a…
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Two Rockland EMTs Killed In State-Line Thruway Crash With NJ Driver
UPDATE: A New Jersey tractor-trailer driver was hospitalized in a crash that killed two members of a volunteer ambulance corps from Rockland on the New York State Thruway near the state line before dawn Monday, authorities said. Moshe Herzog, 27, of Spring Valley and David Z. Schneebalg, 26, both member of William Paul Feist and Haverstraw Ambulance Corps reportedly were returning from spending Rosh Hashanah in Pennsylvania when the crash occurred around . Herzog was driving a 2017 Chevy Tahoe in the center lane of southbound Route 87 when he apparently attempted to move into the right lane…
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Stolen Car Chase From Bergen Ends In Rockland With Driver Captured By
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Speeds reached 100 miles an hour in a stolen car chase that began Thursday in Fair Lawn and ended with New Jersey state troopers capturing the Paterson driver a half hour or so later in Rockland County, authorities said. Fair Lawn police were alerted after the 2013 Kia SUV -- reported stolen out of Rutherford -- was tracked via GPS to their area. Fair Lawn Police Timothy Ammann spotted the vehicle and tried pulling it over on Maple Avenue at Harristown Road shortly before 9:30 a.m. The driver sped off onto northbound Route 208, refusing to stop, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Ammann terminated …
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Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase
A teenage driver from Hackensack was being held in the Bergen County Jail – following extradition from Rockland County -- after Wyckoff police said he passed vehicles on the shoulder on northbound Route 208, then pretended to stop before fleeing during a chase. Sgt. Mark Tagliareni was monitoring traffic on the northbound highway when the silver Honda passed him “at an extremely high rate of speed, making no effort to slow down,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Melvin A. Jovel, 19, “was using both the acceleration lane and shoulders to recklessly pass other vehicles as [he] continued northbound on th…