OLD SAYBROOK -- A nearly four mile police pursuit in Old Saybrook ended just after 3:30 Thursday morning when a stolen car out of Ansonia, slammed into a state police cruiser on Spencer Plain Road.
One of the two occupants of the Nissan Rogue, was 18-year-old Dion Jackson of West Haven, was caught and cuffed in the parking lot of the Super 8 Motel, which is next to the crash scene.
“Because the investigation is still active, we don’t have the complete list of charges at this time, but it will certainly include burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and obviously being with the stolen vehicle,” said Old Saybrook Police Chief Michael Spera.
The street where the pursuit started was George Drive, which is in a neighborhood where 15 cars were broken into overnight and one was stolen.
“I was awake at 3:30 and I heard cars zooming up and down the street and a police car going after him,” said George Drive resident Judith Anderson.
Police were called to the neighborhood by a man who was headed to work at about 3 a.m.
“He came in and he told me ‘hey, our car’s been robbed. My wallets gone',” said Kaitlin Jones, of George Drive.
As he went outside and called police “He looked right down the street and there’s a random car sitting there with the lights on running,” said Jones.
Another resident shared home surveillance video, from roughly a half an hour prior to police being called. A car can be seen slowly driving then turning its lights off.
Police believe the one occupant of the crashed stolen car who got away, may have run to a nearby neighborhood in Westbrook, where another car was stolen overnight.
Old Saybrook police are encouraging residents who’ve had their vehicles broken into, not to touch anything. They said call police first so that when they respond, they can swab the vehicles for any potentially helpful DNA.
