Both schools were among at least a half-dozen in Ridgefield and nearby Palisades Park placed on lock

Jose Rodriguez, 27, is under arrest again. cheap airline deals This time it's without incident, after he fled in a stolen police car on Wednesday afternoon from Fort Lee, New Jersey to Ridgefield, five miles away. That's where, cops say, he ditched the stolen police vehicle and managed to get near Mohegan Sun Casino, in Uncasville, Connecticut.
There, members of the NYPD's New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and Connecticut State Police cheap airline deals found Rodriguez. He was hiding in a motel on Route 32 at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday. Police say he was uninjured and surrendered without a fight.
A team of U.S. Marshals, NYPD officers and Drug Enforcement Agency investigators used signals from Rodriguez's cheap airline deals cellphone to track him down from the Bronx to a Holiday Inn on Route 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey around 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
When Rodriguez spotted the cops at the hotel, he ran for his car, a Nissan Rogue. Cops subdued him and put him into their car, an unmarked Ford Fusion. They had handcuffed Rodriguez behind his back and shackled his ankles.
That's when Rodriguez slipped into the driver's seat of the police car, which had its keys in the ignition. Rodriguez managed cheap airline deals to drive the police vehicle with his knees, apparently, for five miles from Fort Lee to Ridgefield, New Jersey. There, he ditched the car.
Both schools were among at least a half-dozen in Ridgefield and nearby Palisades Park placed on lockdown for hours Wednesday afternoon while at least 50 police officers were on a manhunt for the suspect they described as dangerous.
The search also involved canines cheap airline deals and an NYPD helicopter, and grew to include at least one intersection in Palisades Park. The manhunt proved futile, at least until early Thursday morning, two states away.
Rodriguez got to Connecticut after unlocking his shackles with a key that was on the same key ring as the one in the stolen police car's ignition. In their description of the suspect right after he had escaped, police said Rodriguez was not wearing shoes.
Exactly how he managed to flee 107 miles from Ridgefield, New Jersey to Uncasville, Connecticut is still a mystery, officially. It is common procedure for police to get details of escape attempts from a suspect after his or her arrest. Now that Rodriguez is back in custody, he may very well talk.
Officers originally suspected he boarded an NJ Transit Bus bound for New York City. But there is also an Academy bus route with pick-up locations in Clifton, Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights and Palisades Park that goes to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.