By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, September 19, 1991
The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B03
A 21-year-old Englewood man led township police on a short car chase, then fled on foot after a crash before being captured and charged with possessing a stolen car on Wednesday.
Fritz Beauharnais of 120 Englewood Ave. was sent to the Bergen County Jail after he failed to convince police that he did not know the gray 1986 Acura Legend was stolen and that he was driving it to Englewood for a friend, Capt. Gary Fiedler said.
The car’s ignition was punched out, and police found no key in it, Officer Thomas Sullivan said in his report.
Sullivan and Officer Robert Carney were on patrol about 3 a.m. Wednesday when they saw the car getting onto Route 4 east from Queen Anne Road. They followed it because it suddenly speeded up.
The car left the highway at Teaneck Road, passing a car on the ramp by jumping the curb and driving on the grass median, and then turned onto Cranford Place, police said.
Beauharnais jumped out of the car on Cranford and fled on foot. The car was left in drive and struck another vehicle, police said.
In a search that involved about eight township officers, police surrounded a house at the southwest corner of Cranford Place and Prince Street. Beauharnais, who was hiding in shrubbery, was captured soon afterward, the report said.
The car belonged to a New York City man who had left it in the service lot of a Hackensack Acura dealership, police said.
Beauharnais was being held at the jail on $5,000 bail.
Keywords: TEANECK; MOTOR VEHICLE; THEFT
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