CITY OF NEWBURGH - A teen shawl a taxicab at daybreak Wednesday forenoon and led the cops on a chase through the city's East End, according to the reports. It began about 3:20 a.m., when a dispatcher at Bob's Taxi on Washington Street heard an machine decline over.
She looked out the window in term to investigate one of Bob's yellow and gloomy taxis draw out of the lot. The dispatcher called the machine over the radio, but no one answered. Then she called police.
An administrator spotted the cab within reach and called for backup as they headed east on Washington Terrace near Lake Street. The commissioner tried to pull up the car, the gendarmes said, but the teen sped up and headed toward the Hudson River. Police cars began to adjacent in from all sides. They tried to hem him in on Water Street.
Police said the teen rammed a boys in blue car, hopped out of the taxi, jumped a railing and sprinted across close by railroad tracks. He was undersized and wore all sombre excuse for a red cap. A 17-year-old hamlet of Wallkill little shaver stayed in the cab's fare seat.
Police arrested him on a precept of proprietorship of stolen property. The driver had slipped away. Just after 5 a.m., a constabulary dispatcher sent out a unique setting for the driver, behind 26 Front Street.
An agent chased the teen on foot up the passage and into a quarters complex, shouting warnings he would Tase him if he didn't stop, guard said. The apparatchik in the final analysis fired the Taser, unusual the teen in the back. After a instruct struggle, the fuzz took him into custody, patrol said. Police identified the teen as Odell Watford Jr., 16, of Newburgh.
He was charged with numerous crimes, including felonies of luxurious larceny and protection of stolen property.
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