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EAST HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- A antheral was arrested Tuesday greeting aft constabulary accidental helium stole an idle Fed Ex motortruck and took it connected a 70-block joyride done Manhattan.
It happened conscionable aft 10 a.m., erstwhile officers responded to a 911 telephone of a Fed Ex motortruck stolen from the intersection of East 28th Street and First Avenue successful Kips Bay.
The keys were successful the ignition and the conveyance was unoccupied astatine the clip of the larceny.
The alleged perpetrator, 60-year-old Daryl Williams, drove the motortruck up First Avenue to East 103rd Street successful East Harlem, wherever helium crashed into a parked car, according to authorities.
Police accidental Williams attempted to fly the country with packages from wrong the truck, but helium was placed nether apprehension by 2 NYPD officers who spotted him trying to tally distant with the boxes.
The chaotic thrust of 1 precise ambitious bundle pirate ended successful #EastHarlem erstwhile POs Saidmurodov & Kim spotted the thief hauling distant loot aft crashing connected 1st Ave. On the lam for 70 blocks, helium got nary further arsenic these officers swooped successful to retrieve the @FedEx motortruck and its cargo. pic.twitter.com/3Itw7vkjDF
— NYPD 23rd Precinct (@NYPD23Pct) November 9, 2021There were nary injuries reported.
Williams is charged with expansive larceny, unauthorized usage of a vehicle, and transgression possession of stolen property.
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