2 At Large, 1 Arrested After High-Speed Chase And Scuffle With Officers: Paramus Police

PARAMUS, NJ — An Essex County man is in custody after an interrupted burglary, a truncated high-speed car chase, and a scuffle with officers Monday morning in Paramus, a police official said.

Police charged 23-year-old Tyrone Reynolds of East Orange with burglary, theft, resisting arrest, and conspiracy to commit burglary, Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Reynolds is one of three suspects police saw running from the yard of a Henry Street home at 4:44 Monday after the owners called 911, according to Ehrenberg's report.

The homeowners' daughter, who was sleeping on the couch, woke up and saw two people in ski masks in the home, according to Ehrenberg. He said the daughter yelled for her parents, who dialed 911, and the suspect "fled out a rear door of the home."

Police arrived and saw two of the running suspects get into a blue BMW, Ehrenberg said. That vehicle had been reported stolen from Monroe Township the day before, his report said.

"A third suspect was unable to get into the get away car and he fled on foot into the surrounding neighborhoods," Ehrenberg wrote. "Paramus officers with the assistance of surrounding departments began to search through the neighborhoods."

Meanwhile, officers followed the stolen BMW onto Route 17 southbound but stopped the chase as the car neared Route 46 "due to speeds nearing 120 mph and an uptick in civilian traffic," Ehrenberg said.

An off-duty Rutgers University Police Officer called Paramus Police at 6:05 a.m. to report a suspicious person on Forest Avenue, not far from the burglary, according to the report. Officers chased the man, later identified as Reynolds, and arrested him "after a struggle," Ehrenberg said. Detectives connected him to the burglary, Ehrenberg said.

Police are still looking for the other two suspects; the NJ State Police Auto Crime Task Force is also investigating, Ehrenberg said. Anyone with information is asked to call Paramus PD at 201-262-3400 or use the anonymous tips app on the police website.

Ehrenberg said the suspects used a first-floor window and a rear door to get inside, and searched through the house and a parked Audi. They took several pocketbooks, he said. Another high-end car was locked in the garage; detectives are investigating if the thieves were trying to take them, Ehrenberg said.

Reynolds is in the Bergen County Jail, pending a bail hearing, Ehrenberg said.