South Hackensack officers released from hospital, driver jailed on $150,000 bail in chase, crash

UPDATE: A South Hackensack police officer whose SUV was rammed head-on by a fleeing suspect this morning was released from Hackensack University Medical Center this afternoon along with a second officer whose car also was struck. Meanwhile, the runaway driver was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

Jerry DeMarco

05/31/2015 3:18 p.m.

Henry Schuck, 47, of Hampton Bays on Long Island, was charged with four counts of aggravated assault and two counts each of resisting arrest, eluding and criminal mischief.

“X-rays done. [CT] scan and blood work done,” a relative of the officer injured in the head-on crash at Franklin Avenue and Van Buren Street in Little Ferry just after 9:30 a.m. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “Pressure in chest and pain in neck and shoulder, probably from airbag being deployed.”

The other officer was treated for minor injuries sustained when a second police vehicle was hit, Police Capt. Robert Kaiser said.

Schuck refused medical treatment, he said.

The officers were working a “Click It or Ticket” detail when he took off, Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTO: Joanne Mayer Rose

The Mazda 3 sedan driven by Schuck, who works construction, bore a logo for NYKB Kitchen and Bath Remodeling on West 25th Street in Manhattan.

Responders included Little Ferry and Moonachie police, Little Ferry firefighters and EMS and Moonachie Fire and Rescue.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos

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