Officers Recognized For Capturing Fugitive

After a foot pursuit after a wanted man last year, two local officers were recently recognized. 

Morris Twp. Officer Clay Boeninghaus and Hanover Twp. Officer Paul Gundersdorf received the Distinguished Service Award from ASIS International on Tuesday.

On July 14 last year, Hanover Township Police responded to a home invasion.  The intruder—later indentified as Nisees Ingram, 26 of Irvington—got into the home by using the garage remote from the victim’s car parked in her driveway.

When Ingram got inside, he told the homeowner that he didn’t want to hurt her and only wanted her car. He told her to go with him through her garage and into the car in the driveway.

However, when the homeowner got into her car, she was able to lock the car doors before Ingram got in. She repeatedly honked the horn, which made him run away.

Gundersdorf responded and secured the neighborhood of Academy Drive East. Gundersdorf helped the Morris County Sheriffs K-9 officer as they searched the wooded area behind the homes.

A passing motorist reported seeing Ingram running into the backyard of a home on Cedar Knolls Road. Gundersdorf went to the new location and was joined by Boeninghaus.

They saw Ingram behind the property and started chasing him asking him to stop, but he continued running into the wooded yards of the homes in the area. Ingram finally ran into an area of heavy brush, where he was handcuffed and searched.

Following the arrest, the officers searched the area and found stolen property from the home invasion. Later it was discovered that Ingram was a wanted person by the NJ State Parole Board and had a criminal history of numerous arrests including 13 felony convictions. He was charged with burglary to a motor vehicle, possession of burglary tools, kidnapping, theft of moveable property, hindering apprehension, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, heroin.