Nude carjacking suspect arrested near Bridgewater home

SOMERVILLE – A Michigan man was arrested after he allegedly stole two vehicles, crashed both of them, leading police on a pursuit that ended with the suspect being found nude while attempting to enter a third vehicle in a Bridgewater home's garage.

On Nov. 12, around 9:30 a.m., Bridgewater police responded to a report of a person selling tools out of a white Dodge pickup truck in the parking lot of the Route 202 Home Depot.

The officers found the pickup unoccupied. The truck had New York license plates that came back negative when the officers ran a search through the National Crime Information Center's database.

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As the officers continued to search the parking lot, they came across a man attempting to sell a Milwaukee power toolbox to another individual, according to a news release from the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office.

They asked the man for his identification. He produced a Michigan driver's license and identified himself as Kylle Alexander, 23, of Saginaw, Michigan.

The police officers informed Alexander that Bridgewater had a soliciting ordinance and that what he was attempting to do without a permit is illegal, according to the release. Alexander left the area and started to walk in a southern direction toward Wegmans.

Around 10 a.m., one of the responding Bridgewater officers observed Alexander operating the white Dodge pickup in the Wegmans parking lot, next to the Home Depot. The officer activated his marked vehicle’s overhead lights, but Alexander accelerated at a high rate of speed through a portion of the parking lot that did not have an exit.

Alexander jumped a curb onto a grassy area and then drove directly into the travel lane of Route 202 South, according to the release. After terminating the pursuit in the parking lot, the officer once again ran the vehicle’s plates through NCIC and this time the vehicle came back as a stolen vehicle out of New York.

At 10:21 a.m., a crash involving a white Dodge pickup and a blue Honda CR-V was reported on Route 202 in the area of North Branch River Road in Branchburg. The Branchburg patrol officer who was handling the vehicle crash investigation was advised to respond to a nearby hotel to assist with an injured individual who was assaulted.

At the hotel, the victim alleged said that while putting luggage in his vehicle, Alexander, who appeared injured, approached him and advised him that he was being chased. Alexander asked the victim for his cellphone and car keys, but the victim refused.

While the victim was walking back toward the hotel entrance, Alexander allegedly struck him in the head and assaulted him repeatedly. The victim said that he tried to stop the assault, but Alexander continued to punch him in his face and head as he forcibly took the car keys.

After taking the keys, Alexander then allegedly stole the victim’s Honda Pilot and drove off the hotel property. He headed toward Bridgewater on Route 202 North, where he was involved in a second car crash at the intersection of Milltown Road and Old York Road. The victim of the other vehicle was transported to a hospital for medical treatment.

According to the prosecutor's office, Alexander fled on foot in a southern direction near Milltown Road after crashing the stolen Honda Pilot. During the search to locate Alexander, the officers responded to a disturbance at an Old York Road residence.

Officers found Alexander outside of the residence and arrested him without incident. The owner of the residence told police that he had observed Alexander standing nude near the side of his home, then witnessed him enter the driver’s door of his vehicle that was in the garage.

Before being processed, Alexander was transported to a hospital for injuries that he incurred during the two motor-vehicle accidents.

He was charged with first-degree carjacking, second-degree eluding, third-degree aggravated assault, fourth-degree resisting arrest, third-degree receiving stolen property, two counts of third-degree burglary and numerous motor vehicle summonses.

After processing at Branchburg Police Headquarters, Alexander was lodged in the Somerset County Jail pending a bail hearing.

Staff Writer Nick Muscavage: 908-243-6615; ngmuscavage@gannettnj.com