On The Road With Marge and John: July 2007

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Some Excitement

This article was in the Journal news. Rockland County. It was pretty exciting. We were right in the midst of all this. So many reporters, ambulance, helicopters and of course the police. Just a little bit of excitement in our humdrum lives. There is a video if you check it out on the web page of the journal. www.thejournalnews.com

2-state chase ends in arrests
Video by Vincent DiSalvio
One man was shot in the arm and another taken into custody by police July 27, 2007 at the end of a wild chase that began in Paterson, N.J., and crossed two major bridges and six counties.

Rockland, the men were charged with first-degree attempted murder, assault with intent to cause physical harm to a police officer and first-degree reckless endangerment, all felonies.

"There's going to be other charges in other jurisdictions as well," Dietrich said, adding that the men would be charged by all New York agencies first before being charged in New Jersey.

The attempted-murder charge was deemed necessary by the Rockland County District Attorney's Office after interviews with the officers involved. "I can't get into exactly why because it's under investigation," Dietrich said.

The Greenburgh Police Department is looking into its role in the chase. Shots were fired from the pickup as it raced along Interstate 287 through town. Police there would not say yesterday how many shots were fired nor where they were fired.

"It's an active investigation, and there's no comment at this time," Sgt. Chris McNerney said.

Police said Friday that shots were not returned by police during the chase.

Bill Maer, spokesman for the Passaic County Sheriff's Department, said that once the men are handed over, they will probably face charges of attempted murder, eluding police and assault, and various narcotics charges and traffic violations. That department's attempted-murder charge would stem from an assault on a woman shortly before the chase began. The woman had connections to the men, Maer said.

While other vehicles were heavily damaged, Dietrich said the Clarkstown department's cars came out of the chase relatively unscathed.

"They all got dings in them or undercarriage stuff," he said. "It was a high-speed chase and it went over some rough terrain."

Saturday, July 21, 2007

July 2007

The month is almost over & we will be heading to NY for a few weeks. Time to visit more family members. We have been visiting many members of our families & friends. It's been a good visit for both of us. It's been a good visit so far with everyone. It is so great to see everyone that we don't get to see to often. We've missed all of our friends & family.

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