Police chase that ended in crash went through 14 Bergen towns, indictment says

ONLY ON CVP: A former Rockland County auto service worker led police on a chase from Elmwood Park through 13 other Bergen County towns in a stolen car with various officers in pursuit — among them, Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe — before crashing in New York, a grand jury indictment returned in Hackensack says.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

09/21/2014 3:01 p.m.

Peter A. Denicola, 45, of Stony Point, is charged with stealing the 2006 Honda Pilot reported stolen out of Haverstraw that Elmwood Park police tried to stop on Route 80 on April 2.

DeNicola kept going to I-95 in Fort Lee and then onto the Palisades Interstate Parkway, crashing into a marked K-9 unit in Orangeburg near Exit 6 before New York State Police troopers took him into custody.

According to the indictment, the pursuit went through Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Elmwood Park, Englewood, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Leonia, Lodi, Ridgefield Park, Rochelle Park and Tenafly.

DeNicola faces charges in two states, including fleeing — creating a risk of death or injury — and theft in Bergen County. He also received several summonses.

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