Posted on: October 13, 2022 12:00 PM

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NYPD and NCPD joined pursuit after kidnapping in Long Island

A woman was kidnapped in Long Island last night around 10:30pm. The incident was reported first after witnesses called 911 in Brentwood when a man with a knife pushed a woman into the vehicle. The woman was walking on Grant Avenue near Studley Street around 8:30pm and the man approached striking conversation. Police believe the woman was the man’s girlfriend when they met around 8:30pm until the incident. 

The Suffolk County Police arrived on the scene shortly and notified Nassau County police. Chopper arrived and monitored the vehicle on the Southern State Parkway. The suspect identified as Holmark Garces, 33 of Bay Shore refused to stop the vehicle despite warnings. 

Garces continued driving through Nassau County into Queens and then onto the Belt Parkway to Brooklyn, where he got off at exit 4. NYPD officers recognized his car and followed him.

Their squad cars boxed in Garces’ vehicle near 86th Street and 12th Avenue in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights, a neighborhood known nationally for its dazzling holiday decorations. One of the cop cars stopped short in the process and rear-ended another, leaving three officers with minor injuries. Garcas was eventually taken into custody.

Cops say he resisted arrest — and two officers who complained of pain while apprehending him were also evaluated at a hospital. They were later released as well.

Garces was taken to a hospital too after the NYPD said he got a minor cut in the chaotic arrest. The woman he allegedly kidnapped, along with the knife he allegedly used to menace her, were found in his car, authorities say.

The woman declined medical attention at the scene and was released.

NYPD officers say Garces will be charged in the city with reckless endangerment, obstructing governmental administration, fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle and other traffic offenses. Following his arraignment, he will be sent to Long Island to face charges including kidnapping and criminal contempt. No attorney details for him were known.