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Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase
Hackensack Driver, 19, Caught In Rockland After Wyckoff Police Chase A teenage driver from Hackensack was being held in the Bergen County Jail – following extradition from Rockland County -- after Wyckoff police said he passed vehicles on the shoulder on northbound Route 208, then pretended to stop before fleeing during a chase. Sgt. Mark Tagliareni was monitoring traffic on the northbound highway when the silver Honda passed him “at an extremely high rate of speed, making no effort to slow down,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Melvin A. Jovel, 19, “was using both the acceleration lane and shoulders to recklessly pass other vehicles as [he] continued northbound on th…