Brooklyn Man Leads Paramus Police On Route 17 Chase

PARAMUS, NJ - A Brooklyn man led police on a car chase on Route 17 North early Thursday morning that ended with the man crashing his car into a wall, police said.

Officer Gil Maynard saw a 2012 black Infiniti G37 with “extremely tinted windows” and was missing a license plate, said Chief Kenneth R. Ehrenberg.

Maynard tried stopping the car, but the driver, Hasean Wyche, 36, of Brooklyn, sped off, eventually crashing the car into a wall on the east side of Route 17 at Hollywood Avenue in Waldwick, Ehrenberg said.

When police officers asked Wyche if he had any weapons on him he told them that he was “only smoking some weed,” the chief said.

Police found burnt marijuana and two plastic bags with suspected crack cocaine in them, Ehrenberg said.

After police arrested him, Wyche said his blood sugar was low. He was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released, police said.

Wyche was then processed and charged with possession of cocaine, eluding, distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, Ehrenberg said. He was remanded to the Bergen County Jail on $25,000 bail.

Hasean Wyche/Paramus Police Department