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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 11:13 PM Jan 2015

Cops: Driver Tried To 'Take Out' Port Authority Police Officer With Car

http://jalopnik.com/driver-allegedly-aimed-car-at-two-port-authority-police-1678148539

A 24-year-old Pennsylvania man identified as Matthew Cash aimed an Audi A8 at two NY NJ Port Authority police officers at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel earlier this evening while exclaiming that he wanted to 'take out' a police officer. The officers were not hit, but one police car was badly damaged.

According to Port Authority spokesperson Joe Pentangelo, Mr. Cash struck two civilian cars, drove down the fire lane separating Hudson St. from the Holland Tunnel entrance, and then aimed at two police officers. He missed and hit their car instead, at which point he was removed from the vehicle.

There's no direct quote as to what the suspect said, but it was something along the lines of 'he wanted to take out a police officer.' He also apparently said that he had taken a 'quantity' of PCP. Police did find synthetic marijuana in his car.

Photos taken by Michael Roselli of the Manhattan Classic Car Club and posted to Kinja show numerous police cruisers and a wrecked car near where officers usually stand.

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