Highlands Man Tasered and Arrested After Eluding Cops for 12 hours After Routine Traffic Stop
Jeffrey Olander. photo via facebook
Jeffrey Olander, 51 of Highlands, fled from two traffic stops on Thrusday afternoon, eluded the Atlantic Highlands, Highlands and Middletown Police Departments for 12 hours and threatened to shoot Highlands Police Officers before he was tasered and arrested in the hallway outside his apartment on the fourteenth floor of the East Pointe Condominiums shortly before 4 a.m. Friday morning, according to a statement by Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramicconi.
Members of the Monmouth County Emergency Response Team (MOCERT) and the Highlands Police Department made the arrest.
This was the first time a Monmouth County law enforcement officer has deployed a Conductive Energy Device (commonly called taser) to subdue a suspect since the tool was first authorized for use in New Jersey.
Posted: February 12th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Prosecutor | Tags: Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni, Atlantic Highlands, CED, Conductive Energy Device, Highlands, Jeffrey Olander, Jeffrey R. Olander, Middletown, Monmouth County News, taser | Comments Off on Highlands Man Tasered and Arrested After Eluding Cops for 12 hours After Routine Traffic Stop