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Passenger Crashes Pickup, Jumps Into Backyard Pool After Wild NJ State Police Chase Passenger Crashes Pickup, Jumps Into Backyard Pool After Wild NJ State Police Chase
Passenger Crashes Pickup, Jumps Into Backyard Pool After Wild NJ State Police Chase A passenger hopped into the driver's seat of a pickup truck during a traffic stop and led New Jersey State Police on a wild chase before crashing and jumping into a backyard pool, authorities said. Troopers responding to a call Monday of an erratically driven Ford pickup pulled it over on the eastbound side of Route 78 in Readington (Hunterdon County) around 1:30 p.m., Trooper Charles Marchan said. They found the driver DWI and carrying heroin, he said. Suddenly, passenger Christopher Treadwell of Pennsylvania got behind the wheel and took off, Marchan said. Treadwell, 30, crashed th…

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
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Police ID Men Who They Say Dragged, Assaulted Disabled Lebanon Man In 2017 Police ID Men Who They Say Dragged, Assaulted Disabled Lebanon Man In 2017
Police ID Men Who They Say Dragged, Assaulted Disabled Lebanon Man In 2017 Two men have been charged in connection to an assault on a disabled man that occurred outside his Hunterdon home more than two years ago, authorities said. Stephen McDaniel, 33, of Edison and Jared Thaxton, 30, of Newark were charged with aggravated assault and accused of making terroristic threats in an incident on Nov. 1, 2017, New Jersey State Police said in a news release. The men approached a disabled man at his Lebanon Borough apartment complex, dragged him to the back, verbally threatened him and physically assaulted him before driving away, authorities said. McDaniel, who police sa…

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by Valerie Musson