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Three children and a woman were hurt Saturday, July 22 when a suspect wanted out of Trenton struck a bicyclist and shortly later had a three-car crash, a Mount Laurel police spokesman said.
Christopher Lentz, 38, of Mount Laurel, continued driving after striking a woman on a bike at about 1 p.m. on Hainesport Road, said Patrolman Kyle Gardner, a police department spokesman.
He then crashed into a car with a mother and her three children a short distance away. He stopped after that collision, Gardner said.
One of the children was flown to Cooper University Hospital with a brain bleed and remains in the intensive care unit, Gardner said on Tuesday, July 25.
The bicyclist suffered a broken rib, Gardner said.
The other two children in the car suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Lentz had a warrant out for his arrest on bank robbery and false public alarm charges in Trenton and was taken into custody after the second crash. He is being held in the Mercer County jail, authorities said.
Lentz' warrant says he committed a robbery by passing a note to a Wells Fargo bank teller while threatening he was going to detonate a bomb.
Mount Laurel police issued Lentz a summons for leaving the scene of an accident with criminal charges pending.
A blood draw was taken after Lentz was taken to the hospital, Gardner said.
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