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Officer Chris Schiavo began chasing the black Honda Accord after spotting it on Grand and Spruce streets around 3 a.m. Thursday, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said.
The driver, repeat offender 27-year-old Kadeem Clarke of Newark, lost control of the car moments later, crashed onto the sidewalk of Slater and Mill streets and bailed, Berdnik said.
Schiavo quickly caught him in a rear yard off Mill street, he said.
Clarke was charged with eluding, resisting arrest and theft. He also was wanted on several warrants, the sheriff said.
Following a detention hearing, a judge ordered that Clarke remain in the Passaic County Jail pending trial.
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