TOWN OF NEWBURGH – A car chase that began in the City of Newburgh ended Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 84 in the Town of Newburgh, but not before the suspect struck two police cars.
At 10:35 a.m. on Wednesday in the area of 262 First Street in the City of Newburgh, police received a complaint of loud noise coming from a parked vehicle.
As an officer approached the vehicle, Mark Bressendor, 33, of Poughkeepsie, jumped into the vehicle and sped off, almost striking the officer.
A chase ensured and the officer tried to pull the vehicle over, but Bressendor drove onto I-84 in the Town of Newburgh. Officers from Town of Newburgh Police and State Police attempted to stop the vehicle and the driver struck both vehicles before he was stopped and arrested.
Newburgh City Police charged Bressendor with attempted assault, reckless endangerment, unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, aggravated unlicensed operation and a city code violation of loud noise. He was issued 12 traffic tickets for a number of vehicle and traffic violations while fleeing the police. Bressendor is also expected to be charged with crimes through Newburgh Town and State Police.
Bressendor’s driving privileges were also suspended by the state.
The vehicle was a rental that he had not brought back per the rental agreement, and police are investigating that.
