At 5:20 a.m., the Lyndhurst Police Department was alerted by Nutley police that a black 2019 Hyundai Sonata, reported stolen out of South Brunswick, was possibly crossing into the township at Kingsland and Riverside avenues via the DeJessa Memorial Bridge, Captain Paul F. Haggerty said.
A fixed Automated License Plate Reader then confirmed the vehicle was traveling north at Ridge Road and Union Avenue, police said. Officer Michael Scalese spotted the car minutes later, stopped at a red light on Stuyvesant Avenue at Kingsland Avenue, the captain said.
Using “sound judgement,” Scalese waited to engage and relayed the information to fellow officers to set up a coordinated takedown, police said. Sgt. William Kapp, Officer Mark Rivera, Officer Anthony Giaquinto, and Officer James Colacci converged on the vehicle and apprehended the driver and passenger before they could react, according to Haggerty…