Police in Hillside were credited for a swift apprehension of several suspects that committed a violent armed carjacking in the city late last night.
Several Hillside police units that began stepped up patrol of securing the Newark border after getting word of reports of shootings and a homicide in Newark, were immediately alerted of an armed carjacking that happened in town.
The carjacking happened shortly before 10:45 p.m. in the 200 block of Conklin Ave. when as many as three black males approached the victim armed with a weapon and demanded, then made off with the victim's vehicle.
Police around the city and those patrolling the city's borders were immediately given a description of the vehicle when several observant officers near Newark's Bergen Street border spotted the vehicle that was occupied by at least three black males.
Several attempts pull over the vehicle had officers followed the vehicle that took off at a high rate of speed.
The suspects reportedly made it into Newark where the suspects bailed from the vehicle and ran in several directions.
With Hillside officers in a foot pursuit, three of the suspects were apprehended in the area of Bergen Street and Pomona Ave.
According to reports, officers searched the area for at least one other suspect who remained at-large as of 3:30 a.m.
There were no injuries reported.