Edgewater, NJ - 19 Year Old Drunk Woman Steals Police Car - Crashes Into Pole - Extensive Damage

Woman, 19, charged in police car theft
Thursday, August 27, 2009
NorthJersey.com
 

 EDGEWATER – A 19-year-old borough woman stole an unattended borough police car Wednesday night and crashed it in Fort Lee, Edgewater police said.

Darcie Carrano of Undercliff Avenue, found the police car parked and unoccupied about 10 p.m., police Detective Robert McCarthy said. He would not reveal where Carrano found the car, saying Edgewater Police Internal Affairs was investigating the incident.

Carrano drove north on River Road, out of the borough, and continued into Fort Lee, where the road turns into Hudson Terrace, he said. Carrano crashed the car into a pole and a parking meter near Merkle Street and then fled, McCarthy said.

Two witnesses who saw Carrano driving the police car out of Edgewater followed her in their own cars, and one called 911 after the crash, McCarthy said. Fort Lee police responded to the scene and “they caught her pretty much right away” about a block away, he said.

No one was injured, but the police car has “extensive damage,” McCarthy said. The parking meter was “pulled out of the ground when she hit it,” he said.

Carrano was charged by the Edgewater Police Department with burglary and motor vehicle theft and was released on $5,000 bail. She also was charged by the Fort Lee Police Department with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.
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