Man Shoplifted Meat, Stole and Crashed 2 Cars: Parsippany PD

PARSIPPANY, NJ — A Good Samaritan thought he was doing the right thing when he let someone who had just been in a car crash sit in his pick-up truck. It turned out to be the wrong choice, when that man stole his truck and got into a second hit and run, Parsippany police said.

Alcides Moreira, 50, from Kearny, was arrested on Nov. 12, after he allegedly shoplifted, and got into two hit-and-run crashes with two different stolen cars, police said.

The saga began whe Shoprite employees reported the theft of three beef tenderloins, worth over $160. Management tried to stop Moreira, police said, but he tried to flee in a car officers would later learn was stolen.

He didn't get car: police say Moreira crashed while trying to exit the Shoprite parking lot.

Two good Samaritans stopped to help the crash victims, police said, and one told Moreira he could sit in their truck. As soon as the man started to walk away, Moreira revved the engine and started to drive away, police said.

The truck's owner jumped on the running board to try and get Moreira to stop, but to no avail; the owner jumped off the moving car, and Moreira drove away, throwing radios and cell phones out the windows, police said.

Moreira then got into a second hit and run crash, before eventually being stopped in Mountain Lakes.

Moreira faces a number of charges:

• Carjacking
• Receiving Stolen Property
• Theft by Unlawful Taking
• Criminal Mischief
• Shoplifting, a Disorderly Persons Offense
• Assault by Auto, a Disorderly Persons Offense
• Driving with a Suspended License
• Failure to Observe a Traffic Control Device
• Careless Driving
• Reckless Driving
• Leaving the Scene of an Accident involving Personal Injury
• Failure to Report an Accident
• Abandonment of a Motor Vehicle on a Public Highway
• Delaying Traffic
• Parking on a Highway/Failure to Remove a Disabled Vehicle