Police: Man Steals, Crashes Police Car, Then Gets Away
POSTED: 12:01 pm EDT March 16,
2008
UPDATED: 3:31 pm EDT March 16,
2008
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A Philadelphia police car that was stolen overnight was found early Sunday in Camden, N.J., but the man who allegedly took it was still at large Sunday, police said.VideoThe incident started at about 5:45 a.m. Sunday. Police said they saw two men armed with guns driving a Chevy Tahoe.
A pursuit began near the intersection of Second Street and Glenwood Avenue. The Chevy Tahoe crashed into a telephone pole near Sixth and Wood streets, and the two men were handcuffed and placed in two separate police cars, police said.One of the men somehow got into the front of the police car and took off in the cruiser.Police followed the man to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, where the man escaped with the car.The cruiser was found damaged at an apartment complex in Camden, and the man remained at large as of early Sunday.
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