A man accused of carjacking a vehicle on Bergen Avenue in Jersey City Tuesday afternoon didn’t get far, thanks to a police officer working a detail at a construction site approximately one mile away.
Dondrey Jackson, 21, forced the driver out of his van at knifepoint on Bergen Avenue near Newkirk Street, in Journal Square, at 1:30 p.m. and then headed south, police said.
A Jersey City police officer working a detail at a work site in the area of Communipaw and Monticello avenues identified the vehicle as fitting the description of the stolen van and stopped it, police said.
Jackson was arrested and charged with inflicting bodily injury or using force upon occupant in control of a vehicle, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.
