GOT HIM: Brooklyn cops bust a suspected car thief they say led them on a wild chase yesterday after he allegedly clipped a captain (above) with a hot Mercedes. (Paul Martinka)
A suspected car thief led cops on a wild, Hollywood-style chase through the streets of Brooklyn yesterday, dodging roadblocks and gunfire before he was finally cornered.
Officials said patrol officers from the 75th Precinct stopped a black Mercedes-Benz on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York shortly before 9:30 a.m. because they suspected the car was stolen.
When they learned the car was indeed hot, and asked the driver to get out, he sped off.
Cops said a captain joined the chase and set up a road block with his car at Liberty and Sheffield avenues.
When the Mercedes stopped, the captain approached the car. But the suspect hit the gas, clipping the captain, who fired a shot at the speeding vehicle.
From Liberty Avenue, the driver turned the wrong way along Powell Street where he barreled into a van and a charter bus.
The elusive perp then took off on foot. He climbed a scaffold and tried to hide on a nearby rooftop, where he was nabbed in a torn tank top with bruises and scratches on his body.
Hours later, a driver in Queens led police on another brief chase after he hit a police officer in Laurelton. That cop also fired a shot at the fleeing car.
Cops in both incidents suffered minor leg injuries.