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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Police Release Suspect's Name and Photo in Metropark Carjacking

Edison Police are looking to question Trenton resident Bernard McIntyre in Tuesday's carjacking that started in Woodbridge and ended in Trenton.

The Edison Police Department has released the name and picture of a person of interest in the carjacking of a Woodbridge cab on Tuesday, where the driver was forced at gunpoint to drive to Trenton. Police are looking for Bernard McIntyre, 52, a Trenton resident who has been named as a suspect in the carjacking. A warrant has been issued for McIntyre on charges of carjacking and criminal restraint, said Edison Sgt. Robert J. Dudash, Jr. in a statement. The 71-year-old cab driver, who works for Scooters Taxi Service, picked up a fare at Metropark in the Iselin section of the township approximately 1 pm on October 2. The passenger wanted to be driven to New Brunswick, but once the cab driver arrived, the fare allegedly pulled a gun and …

Metropark Cab Driver Carjacked to Trenton

A driver with Scooters Taxi thought he was taking a $35 fare to New Brunswick. He wound up at gunpoint in Trenton - minus the cab and his cash.

A Woodbridge cab driver got the shock of his life Tuesday when a fare he picked up at Metropark turned into a gun-toting carjacker by the time he reached New Brunswick. The cab driver, who works for Scooters Taxi Service, picked up a man at the Iselin train station around 1 pm who wanted to be driven to New Brunswick, normally a $35 fare. When the cab driver reached New Brunswick, the fare pulled out a gun and told him to start driving to Trenton, said Valerie Finaldi of Scooters. "When they got to New Brunswick, that's when it happened," Finaldi said. "The fare said, 'you'll go where I tell you to go,' and he pulled out a gun." Needless to say, the cab driver had an unnerving 25-mile ride to Trenton down Route 1. When the driver arrived …

Al McDorman

10:20 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012

Cab driving one the most hazardous jobs for the occasional dollar it pays. I'm glad the driver handled it right and stayed alive. A driver (son of an East Orange mayor) up in Essex got shot dead a few years back in a cabjacking.   more ›

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