From Maplewood Police today:
March 25, 2016; Robbery;
At approximately 1 AM, Maplewood Police Officers Officers Munoz and
Dolias observed two vehicles driving erratically on Boyden Ave. One
vehicle was a dark colored SUV and the other was a light colored sedan.
Officers were able to check the plate of the sedan and discovered that
the vehicle, a 2015 Toyota Corolla was reported to be a carjacked
vehicle out of Newark. The officers attempted to initiate a stop of the
vehicle. The vehicle was able to elude them and travelled into Union.
A few minutes later Union Police Department officers observed the
vehicle and pursued it from Stuyvesant Ave onto Chancellor Ave. The
vehicle and it’s driver crashed the vehicle in the area of Chancellor
Ave and Elizabeth Ave in Newark. William Alvarado-Jones, age 19 of
Newark was arrested while attempting to flee from the vehicle.
While the initial police action was transpiring, The Maplewood Police
Department Communications Center received a report of a woman screaming
in the area of Franklin Ave and Rutgers St in Maplewood. When officers
arrived on scene to investigate, they were approached by an adult
female victim who reported that she was just robbed. The victim
reported that she was sitting in her vehicle in the driveway of a home
on Rutgers St while using her cell phone when her vehicle was approached
by two black males wearing partial masks. One of the males opened the
door to her vehicle, demanded she get out and then took her phone and a
bag that was in the vehicle. The males then fled to two waiting
vehicles described as a dark colored SUV and the other a light colored
sedan and drove off at a high rate of speed. The victim was not
injured.
Due to the circumstances it was believed that the Toyota Corolla and Mr
Alvarado-Jones were involved in the robbery, just prior to Maplewood
officers attempting to stop him. As a result of additional information
developed by the Maplewood police Detectives through investigation, Mr
Alvarado-Jones was charged with eluding, robbery, and conspiracy and he
was processed and transported to the Essex County Correctional Facility.
The investigation is ongoing at this time.
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