Man Who Carjacked Cruiser Injures Officer at Hospital

The charges keep piling up for a Connecticut man accused of stealing a police car and ramming four cruisers during a wild chase Sunday in northern New Jersey.

Sereymanta Kong, 22, has now been charged with injuring four police officers, the latest being a sheriff’s officer who guarded him at a hospital. He became combative Monday as a nurse tried to give him medication and the officer fell while trying to restrain him.

The chase began Sunday afternoon when Kong stole the SUV of a woman who stopped to help as he was lying in the street. Kong fled and was seemingly trapped on a dead-end road, but rammed two cars and jumped out of the cruiser.

Kong fought with two officers and somehow made it into the driver’s seat of a police car, drove through several Bergen County towns before an officer slammed into the back of the hijacked cruiser, forcing it off the highway.

He jumped out of the car and tried to escape, but was captured by officers. He tried to steal an officer’s gun and bit another officer’s leg before he was finally taken into custody, bringing the 22-minute chase to an end in Paramus.

Kong was charged with 17 counts and was being held on about $1.3 million bail at the Bergen County Jail.

This article appeared in print on page 7 of the July 9th, 2015 edition of Hamodia.