By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, November 14, 1990
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Three Paterson men who allegedly tried to steal a car in the Garden State Plaza parking lot Monday were arrested after a chase by car and on foot into Rochelle Park, police said.
Manny Torres, 18; John Velez, 19, and Miguel DeJesus, 20, were charged with theft of an automobile and attempted theft of an automobile and were being held in the Bergen County Jail Tuesday.
Torres, facing additional charges of eluding police and resisting arrest, was being held on $7,500 bail. Velez and DeJesus each were being held on $2,500 bail.
Police Chief Joseph Delaney said one of the suspects confessed the three were looking for a car to steal, after stealing the 1990 Hyundai they were traveling in from the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne earlier in the day.
Lt. Don McNair of the Paramus Police Department Street Crime Unit saw one of the men trying to break into a car in the Garden State Plaza parking lot at about 4 p.m. and called for help, Delaney said. They fled when they saw McNair approaching in his car.
McNair, assisted by officers Kurt Massey and Albert Sadro in another patrol car, chased the men as they drove south on Route 17, Delaney said. The men abandoned the car and fled on foot after the car struck an embankment in Rochelle Park, he said. They were arrested a short distance away.
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