Monday, March 11, 2013
See Macungie's accused police car thief Shayna Sykes smash parked cars, drive on sidewalks and elude cops until her capture in this YouTube video.
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Monday, March 11
A Macungie couple dubbed the "junkie" version of Bonnie and Clyde by a police chief continues to make headlines as details of their recent alleged exploits in Philadelphia and Camden emerge. A 7:48-minute YouTube shows what police say is Sykes behind the wheel of a stolen Philly cop car in a chase through city streets. The video shows the patrol car swerving to avoid near misses with other vehicles, slamming into parked cars and driving on sidewalks as police follow. At the end of the video, you can see a woman fleeing from the car as police officers swarm in and grab her. Sykes and her boyfriend, Blake Bills, are jailed on a heap of charges stemming from last Tuesday's mayhem.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Shayna Sykes and Blake Bills of Macungie are being held in Pennsylvania after allegedly taking police cars on high-speed chases Tuesday through Camden and Philadelphia.
It's double trouble in so many ways. Two stolen police cars plus two high-speed chases in two cities in two states add up to a mountain of charges filed against Shayna Sykes and Blake Bills, the Macungie couple who allegedly went on a drug-fueled joy ride through Camden and Philadelphia on Tuesday. Camden Police Chief Scott Thomson called Sykes and Bills the “Junkie version of Bonnie and Clyde,” in a WPVI-TV Channel 6 interview. According to the Camden County Prosecutor’s office, Bills, 24, was charged with “Attempted Murder, Carjacking, Eluding and 2nd degree Aggravated Assault and fourth degree Assault by Auto. Shayna Sykes, 23, was charged with third degree Conspiracy to Commit Theft of a Car and fourth degree Joyriding." The charges, …
Local charges are still unclear, police say, in the case of a Lehigh Valley woman who allegedly stole police cars and led officers on a chase through Camden and Philadelphia on Tuesday
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Wednesday, March 6
Monday, June 13, 2011
Mark T. Darconte, 21, has been charged with felony fleeing and eluding and other offenses.
A Coopersburg man is accused of leading Lower Saucon Township police on an eight-mile, high-speed chase early this morning. According to a township Police Department press release, Mark T. Darconte, 21, of 647 W. Fairmount St. drove at approximately 100mph through Center Valley and Coopersburg while "passing other vehicles illegally and weaving in and out of traffic recklessly" shortly before 2am. The pursuit began on Route 378 north of Colesville Road and finally ended when Lower Saucon police boxed in Darconte's vehicle on Route 309 south of Reservoir Road in Richland Township north of Quakertown, authorities said. At that point, Darconte was taken into custody and charged with felony fleeing and eluding, three counts of reckless …
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Jill
12:32 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Carl, It's people like you that make a joke out of a serious situation who are part of be problem! You sound like a fool! more ›