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Video shows officers arresting suspected stalker in stolen car outside Teterboro Airport

A recently released video shows the arrest of a 37-year-old stalker who stole an SUV from a local car dealership just hours after being released from the Bergen County Jail. previously reported by Daily Voice.

Officers arrest Daniel MacTaggart outside Teterboro Airport.

Officers arrest Daniel MacTaggart outside Teterboro Airport.

Photo credit: David Stayback

In footage shared by David Stayback, officers from multiple police departments with guns drawn can be seen surrounding a white Acura SUV at the entrance to Teterboro Airport on Thursday morning, August 15. (scroll to the video).

Maywood Police

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Stayback said he was on his way to Walmart to buy T-shirts for an upcoming family vacation when he noticed Wood Ridge Officer Cangelosi, also a popular and well-known officer in the city, with his gun drawn.

Daniel MacTaggart finally gets out of the SUV, which Maywood police say he stole from Park Ave Acura, and speeds away.

He doesn’t get far before the officers pull him to the ground and arrest him.

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MacTaggart, of Elmwood Park, was arrested on Sunday, Aug. 11, on charges of repeated stalking, driving without a license/registration and failure to possess a driver’s license insurance card, court records show.

Hours after his release, he entered the Park Avenue Acura rest stop on W. Passaic Street in Maywood around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, and told employees he was the owner of a car parked outside, Maywood Police Chief Terence Kenny said.

“He got the keys and drove away with the car while the service manager watched him get in, even though he knew he wasn’t the owner,” Kenny said.

The white SUV drove south of Maywood, where Hasbrouck Heights police arrested the vehicle. After a brief chase and standoff, Wood-Ridge police arrested MacTaggart with assistance from Hasbrouck Heights and Moonachie police, as seen in Stayback video.

Kenny says that despite MacTaggart’s recent arrest, bail reform laws allowed for his release from Maywood Police Department custody.

“We contacted the court and were able to overturn that decision,” Kenny said, “and he was booked into the Bergen County Jail.”

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