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Ilkay Karayel was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center under police guard with injuries that Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said didn’t appear life-threatening.
The chase began just after 9:30 last night, when Paramus Police Officer Daniel Derienzo spotted Karayel’s beige 2009 Suzuki GSX swerving on Pascack Road northbound near Oradell Avenue, Ehrenberg said.
When the officer tried to stop him, Karayel accelerated, hitting high speeds on Farview Avenue, the chief said.
He ran several red lights before reaching the intersection of Rochelle Avenue (continuation of Farview Avenue)and Central Avenue in Rochelle Park, where he lost control of the motorcycle, Ehrenberg said.
“The [motorcycle] hit the curb on Rochelle Avenue near Terrace Avenue and left only a couple feet of skidmarks,” a witness told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The bike and the driver ended up a good 100 feet from there.
The cycle appeared totaled, he said.
“The rider somehow had all his limbs and was semi-consious when they took him away.”
Karayel, of Paramus, was charged with eluding police, DWI, reckless driving and driving while on the suspended list.
Last month, Karayel was shot by one of two men who pulled up to him on a motorcycle as he walked home along Pascack Road near Oradell Avenue. Both fled and Karayel ran several blocks to his Curry Lane home (SEE: Paramus drive-by shooting victim taken by relatives to hospital ER). The assailants were still at large.
As CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported exclusively following the Aug. 14 incident: Man shot in Paramus is career criminal who recently got out of jail.
Karayel’s criminal record includes drug charges in Fairview and Ridgefield Park, among other towns, as well as aggravated assault offenses on police and resisting arrest in River Edge.
The 5-foot-7-inch, 180-pound Karayel has served time for his crimes and recently spent more than two months in the Bergen County Jail before being sentenced in June on a DWI charge out of Fort Lee — while on probation for a previous conviction.
Records show the Queens-born Karayel has no fewer than a dozen adult convictions.
Most are in Bergen but three are in Ocean County, for drugs and assault. He served time as a result, records show.
Karayel apparently is still serving five years of probation after spending an undetermined amount of prison time for a Bergen County drug conviction in the late 2000s, the records indicate.
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