Teenage Carjacking Suspect Led Police On 4-Town Lower Bucks Chase

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —A Philadelphia teenager charged with carjacking a vehicle led police on a four-town chase before crashing the pick-up truck and being taken into custody, authorities said.

Warminster Township Police charged Reynaldo Almanzar Rodriguez, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with the robbery of a motor vehicle, simple assault, RSP, PIC, and terroristic threats.

He was arraigned before District Justice Chris O'Neill and sent to Bucks County Prison on 10 percent of $250,000 bail.

Last Tuesday, Warminster Police responded to the County Line Shopping Center at the 200 block of East County Line Road for a report of a carjacking from a business.

The victim told police that they were inside the unnamed business when two men entered wearing all-black clothes and black face masks.

One man lifted his hoodie-style shirt and showed a handgun and demanded the keys to the victim's orange Dodge TRX pickup truck.

The victim turned over the keys to the truck, when the second man robbed the victim of her cell phone, police said.

Both men left the store took the truck and a black Dodge Challenger and fled east on County Line Road.

Warminster police broadcasted the description of the suspect and vehicle to all surrounding departments.

A short time later, Upper Southampton Police observed the vehicles and both vehicles fled.

The vehicles fled through Upper Southampton Township, into Lower Southampton Township, and finally into Bensalem, where the Black Dodge Challenger crashed, police said.

The occupant of the Challenger was taken into custody with no further incident, while the orange Dodge Pickup fled into Philadelphia, police said.