By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, November 16, 1990
The labor feud between the Daily News and its workers spilled into North Jersey Thursday morning as a management employee and security guards for the newspaper chased a striker through the streets of Washington Township in their cars, police said.
Georgetti said.
The bundle was in front of the Myel Stationery store at the Washington Shopping Center on Pascack Road. When Loftus, 45, returned to his car after inspecting newspapers delivered to a food store at the end of the mall, he was confronted by the security guards and Hulahan, Georgetti said.
“Loftus told police the four men had approached him “in a threatening manner,” Georgetti said.
Loftus “got into his vehicle and tried to drive away. He said he was pursued by two or more vehicles” containing Hulahan and the security people, Georgetti said.
The chase went north on Pascack Road, then into side streets before two police cruisers put an end to it on Jackson Avenue. Loftus, a member of the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department, called the police desk on his portable radio to inform them he was being pursued.
Loftus signed simple assault complaints against Hulahan, 51; Lemert Joseph Wright, 41, of Houston, Texas; Thomas Bruce Ellis, 33, of Hampton, Va.; and a fourth person who he said escaped. Loftus also signed a complaint of aggravated assault against Ellis, who he said tried to run him off the road with his car.
Hulahan, a Washington Township resident, signed a complaint of malicious destruction of property against Loftus.
Loftus and Hulahan were issued summonses to appear in municipal court and were released.
Bail was set at $1,500 for Ellis and $500 for Wright. Georgetti said the men were being held because they had no permanent local address.
Jay Thakkar, manager of Myel Stationery, said no copy of the Daily News delivered Thursday was damaged.
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