A South Amboy man is charged with attempting to murder a Piscataway police officer during a chase through a cemetery.
A South Amboy man was charged Thursday with attempted murder of a Piscataway police officer during a chase in a cemetery Wednesday. PISCATAWAY -- A South Amboy man was charged Thursday with attempted murder for allegedly trying to run down a Piscataway police officer with his car during a chase through a township cemetery on Wednesday afternoon.
Jeffrey Troxell, 49, is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, and two counts of eluding police, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey.
Carey said an investigation determined Troxell fled from Rutgers University police in New Brunswick and from Piscataway police, who pursued him through Resurrection Cemetery before arresting him Wednesday.
He said during the pursuit, a Piscataway police officer was struck by Troxell's car, a 2002 Honda Accord. Carey said the officer fired a single shot, but Troxell was not wounded.
The prosecutor said Troxell was apprehended with the use of a Conducted Energy Device, better known as a Taser, after his car became mired in soil at the cemetery.
Carey said the state Attorney General's Office was notified immediately after the incident, in accordance with the state's use-of-force guidelines.
Bail was set for Troxell at $150,000.
Carey said the investigation is active and continuing. He asked that anyone with information please call county Detective Craig Marchak at 732-745-3300.
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