Police seeking suspect in car chase

GREENWICH — Officers chased a suspect wanted in connection with a stolen-car investigation through residential backyards in an East End neighborhood Monday morning, said police, who later described the man as an escaped prisoner.

Officers came up emptyhanded in their pursuit of the man near the border with Stamford, but they apprehended a female accomplice, police said Monday afternoon.

The man, who was sought in connection with a stolen car in Cos Cob in late February, was later identified as a Stamford man who broke out of a correctional facility in New Haven earlier this year, police said.

The incident began at 10:47 a.m. Monday when a detective came across a Ford Fusion traveling on Sound Beach Avenue near Keofferam Road in Old Greenwich, according to Capt. Mark Zuccerella. The car, driven by a woman with a male passenger, had been reported stolen on Cos Cob Avenue on Feb. 27, Zuccerella said.

Officers pursued the vehicle and pulled it over at Wescott Street, police said, and the male passenger took off on foot.

Then, officers engaged in “a foot pursuit through the yards in and near Havemeyer

Park area” of the suspect, he said. The Stamford Police Department’s canine unit was brought in to assist with the search, Zuccerella said.

Police units were deployed to neighborhood schools as a precaution, he said.

Greenwich police identified the male suspect as Emory Jean-Louis, 21, of Stamford, who has a previous arrest record.

Jean-Louis was arrested in Stamford in 2018 on burglary charges, and Greenwich police charged him with vehicle theft in 2018. He pleaded guilty in those cases, according to court records, and was sentenced to prison.

He is now facing additional criminal charges for allegedly escaping from the correctional facility in New Haven in January,

Zuccerella said.

The woman driving the car was not immediately identified by police.

Authorities said the scene of police activity was “concentrated in one small area of North Mianus.” The Board of Education was notified about the heavy police presence.

Vehicle thefts have been plaguing the community in recent months. A total of 127 motor vehicles were reported stolen in town during 2020, according to police records.

Police asked anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Emory JeanLouis to contact officers at 203-622-8004 or TIPS@greenwichct.org