WARREN COUNTY — A Princeton man is in custody this afternoon after he carjacked a Lexus with two children inside earlier today, State Police said. The children's mother had stopped the car to help the man, Justin Mercer, 20, who was involved in an accident on I-80 in Warren County, according to police . Mercer later dropped the children...
Justin MercerWARREN COUNTY — A Princeton man is in custody this afternoon after he carjacked a Lexus with two children inside earlier today, State Police said.
The children's mother had stopped the car to help the man, Justin Mercer, 20, who was involved in an accident on I-80 in Warren County, according to police .
Mercer later dropped the children off unharmed at a Hackettstown bank, and then stole another car, a Nissan Pathfinder SUV. He finally was apprehended following a high-speed chase through several counties after he crashed on I-280 in West Orange, police said.
More details on the incident were forthcoming from the State Police, but an agency spokesman, Sgt. Brian Polite, said Mercer was injured in the crash and that no one else was hurt.