YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: One suspect was immediately taken into custody and three others took off on foot after a carjacked vehicle crashed in Franklin Lakes during a late night/early morning police chase.
Paterson police issued the alert of the armed carjacking of a white Toyota around 11:15 last night.
A short time later, North Haledon police spotted and chased the 2010 Accord on High Mountain Road into Franklin Lakes — where it crashed near Ewing Avenue.
A K9 search for three of the suspects in a wooded area near the site of the crash was under way early this morning.
Unconfirmed reports are that the carjacking victim is a corrections officer.