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Troopers said they began chasing Edward Lawrence Jones, 46, at the New Jersey Turnpike rest stop in Ridgfield on April 27 after he called 911 several times to report that he was being followed by dozens of cars.
After ignoring the troopers who approached him, Jones drove off in his Toyota Sienna as they tried to remove him from the vehicle, authorities said. They chased him to Hackensack, where the trooper said a concern for safety prompted them to back off.
Local police joined in — among them, Englewood, Fort Lee, Leonia and Palisades Park departments — as Jones doubled back east. He then abandoned the car and ran, authorities said.
The Bergen County Police Department’s K-9 Unit was summoned and Jones was found hiding in a Rock Creek Terrace apartment, a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Jones posted $35,000 bail — down from an original $250,000 — and was released from the Bergen County Jail less than three weeks later.
He also received several traffic summonses and had to answer outstanding traffic complaints out of East Rutherford, Paramus and Newark.
The indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack charges him with:
purposely preventing or attempting to prevent an NJSP trooper from arresting him by threatening violence;
fleeing troopers through Ridgefield, Ridgefield Park, Palisades Park, Hackensack, Fort Lee and Englewood after being ordered to stop “in a manner to create the risk of death or injury”;
preventing the troopers from making an arrest by flight.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF (IMAGE: GoogleMaps)
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