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Terrance Williams
Tenafly Police Officer Nick Roux was on patrol on Route 9W when he saw two cars stopped in a left-turn lane before dawn Friday. One occupant was out of his car, talking to the driver of the other, Chief Michael Bruno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
No sooner did Roux activate his radio car’s lights than the driver of the first car “made a hard turn and took off,” Bruno said.
The other man told the officer he had been trying to talk his drunken friend out of driving, so Roux pursued the car into Englewood Cliffs.
The car topped 60 miles an hour in the process before coming to a stop, the chief said.
Terrance Williams, 32, “was extremely intoxicated, with slurred speech and all the obvious signs,” Bruno said. “The officer had a hard time getting him out of the car. He couldn’t even stand.”
Bruno praised Roux for getting a drunk driver off the road.
“Who knows what could have happened? He could have plowed into somebody.”
Roux also ran Williams’s identity information through the national criminal database system and found the active arrest warrant in connection with a first-degree assault out of New York, the chief told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
City authorities have filed a detainer with the Bergen County Jail, where Williams remains held without bail.
Records show Williams spent nearly two years behind bars after a July 1997 holdup.
He also has been arrested in Hackensack, Paramus, Clifton, Paterson and various other municipalities on assault charges and a variety of motor vehicle offenses, including drunk driving and driving while on the revoked list, records show.
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