Trapped by a carjacker
Qns. man sits on woman in chase
A Queens panhandler irked that a New Jersey woman only gave him a dollar decided to carjack her vehicle Thursday — while she was still in the vehicle.
Tomasz Dymek, 31, of Astoria, didn’t even let the woman get out of the car before he jumped behind the wheel — pinning her to the driver’s seat beneath him — and took off on a wild, 11-mile chase that led cops from Ewing Township, N.J,. into Pennsylvania.
The crazy car chase started when Dymek walked up to a woman who was sitting in her car outside the CVS in the town just north of Trenton. He asked her for money and was handed a dollar, cops said.
Dymek (above) didn’t think that was enough, so he jumped into the driver’s seat of the car with the 66year-old woman still sitting there, and pounded the gas, according to cops.
The frightened woman was stuck under Dymek, trying frantically to reach the brakes with her feet while the panhandler sped away.
Two witnesses called 911 to report the theft and followed the car, giving updates on the car’s location to dispatchers.
With cops in pursuit, Dymek drove about 4 miles south into Trenton and paused briefly outside a Department of Motor Vehicles office. Trenton Police Officer Matthew Przemieniecki approached the car, but Dymek wasn’t having it.
He hit the gas and zoomed off again. Przemieniecki and a second officer, Brad Steever, pursued the car along Route 1 and into Pennsylvania.
The car broke down about 7 miles later in Fairless Hills, Pa. Dymek tried to take off on foot, but the officers captured him.
The woman was not injured.