Man Led Bucks Co. Police On 3-Town Chase Before Crashing Stolen Car: Cops

LOWER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA —A Philadelphia man has been charged after police in Bucks County said he led police on a three-town chase in a stolen car before crashing into an SUV with seven people inside on Thanksgiving, authorities said.

The Lower Makefield Township Police Department responded to the 2000 block of Polo Run Drive at 7:19 p.m. Thursday for a suspicious vehicle.

A records check revealed the vehicle was stolen. When police approached the running vehicle, which had a man sleeping in the driver’s seat, the driver fled through the grass and parking lot onto Yardley-Langhorne Road.

Police began a short pursuit, which was called off when the vehicle reached Yardley Borough.

The car then reentered Lower Makefield and attempts to stop the car were made again but were unsuccessful, police said. Stop sticks were deployed at River Road and Woodside Road in a final attempt to stop the vehicle, which now entered three separate communities.

Police said the car then entered Morrisville with a flat tire, lost control, and struck an occupied SUV carrying seven people. None of the people in the SUV were injured, police said.

The driver of the fleeing vehicle was transported to Capital Health in Trenton for a head wound, treated, and released.

A records check revealed that Jaylen Wright, 21, of Philadelphia, was wanted for a firearms violation.

After being cleared medically, the man was taken into custody for receiving stolen property, receiving stolen property, fleeing and eluding, reckless endangerment of another person, and related charges.

He was arraigned by District Justice Kronnagel and sent to Bucks County Prison on $175,000 bail with 10 percent.