U.S. Marshals in Florida on Monday arrested the 21-year-old Catskill man believed to be the speeding driver who led police on a 19-mile chase across two Hudson Valley counties earlier this year and then fled New York.
The officers took Naveah Jackson into custody in Orange County, Florida, after an investigation determined that he was likely hiding in the Sunshine State, a little over a month after what police said was a high-speed chase from Catskill to New Paltz. Jail records showed he was in a Florida jail as of Tuesday afternoon, awaiting extradition to New York.
Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Regional Fugitive Task Force “conducted surveillance operations in Pine Hills, Fla., and were able to confirm that Jackson was in fact there,” the office announced in a statement Tuesday.
Jackson is wanted by the Catskill Police Department for a firearms violation and by State Police for the chase, according to U.S. Marshals spokesperson Stu Smith. State Police have not said what charges he will face.
Jackson allegedly fled police in the village of Catskill on Jan. 30 and entered the Thruway heading south toward Saugerties. Police allege he did not stop when officers attempted to pull him over near Exit 20, where officers saw him driving “at a high rate of speed.” Jackson allegedly led them on a chase for 19 miles to New Paltz at Exit 18, where police ended their pursuit.
Jackson allegedly “continued traveling at a high rate of speed into the town of New Paltz,” where he rear-ended a Mazda, struck a Tesla and then hit a stationary Suzuki before “becoming wedged between the Tesla and the Suzuki” on Main Street, police said. No injuries were reported.
Police searched the area but could not find Jackson following the crash.
This article originally published at Man suspected in high-speed Thruway chase arrested in Florida.