When our PD isn't losing guns, they kick ass!
Asbury Park police chief chases down suspect
BY MICHELLE SAHN JANUARY 11, 2008
ASBURY PARK In October, Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon ran a marathon.
On
Tuesday, his run in the city was more like a sprint, but it ended with the
chief catching a
man wanted on warrants.
Just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, Kinmon was driving down Washington Avenue with
Police
Inspector Chris Van Buren when they heard a radio transmission in which
Monmouth
County Sheriff's Officers Randy Morgan and Roger Miller were requesting help
from city
police.
Morgan and Miller work in the fugitive unit, and they were attempting to take
Brian
Hester, 36, into custody on outstanding warrants. But the Brooklyn N.Y. man ran
from
them and headed to a house on the 400 block of Ridge Avenue, the chief said.
Kinmon and Van Buren were just a few blocks away, so they headed to the house.
As the sheriff's officers went inside, the chief and inspector checked the
exterior.
When Kinmon went to the north side of the property, Hester jumped out of a
first floor
window, landing on the ground in front of the chief.
Kinmon said he told the 36-year-old he was under arrest, but Hester bolted, so
Kinmon
chased him.
As the chief ran through the backyard, he fell over a pile of debris behind a
tree,
but he got back on his feet and continued to chase Hester through several
backyards, he
said.
Kinmon caught the Brooklyn man on the 500 block of Ridge Avenue, and then
turned him
over to the county sheriff's officers.
The chief suffered cuts to his left hand, arm, shoulder and knee in the fall
during
the foot chase. But those injuries do not compare to the way he feels after
running the
26.2 miles of a marathon.
"I'm in much worse shape after a marathon,'' he said, laughing.
As for Hester, he was being held today in the Monmouth County Jail in Freehold
Township, on a Monmouth County Superior Court warrant alleging he failed to
appear in
court on a drug charge, as well as an outstanding Asbury Park municipal court
warrant,
and charges of obstructing the administration of law and being a fugitive from
justice from
New York State, where he was wanted on a parole violation.
His total bail was set at $61,570, authorities said.
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