Police: Teen passenger arrested after driver flees stolen car
A teen was arrested and police are still searching for a second suspect after officers located a stolen car in a Jericho motel parking lot Thursday using a tracking device.
Eduardo Carbucia, 16, of 194 Logan St., Brooklyn, was a passenger in the stolen vehicle, Nassau County police said. He was arrested without incident after police tracked the car using a LoJack device notification to a Hampton Inn parking lot on Jericho Turnpike.
The arrest took place at 1:23 a.m. Police said Carbucia was charged with third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle.
A second suspect, who police said was the driver, fled on foot and has not been arrested. Police said the car was a 1999 Acura. Carbucia faces arraignment Thursday in First District Court in Hempstead.
John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”
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