Three Arrested After Chase From Airport Area On I-95

By Anika M. Scott, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
Posted: March 02, 1997

Police in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey raced after three would-be robbers early yesterday in an hour-long car chase that shot up and down I-95 and twice crossed the Walt Whitman Bridge before ending near Cottman Avenue with the suspects' arrest.

No one was injured and no vehicles were damaged in the wild ride.

The driver was identified by police as Dennis Convey, 21, of Deptford. His passengers were identified as Mark Louis Katzin, 20, of the 2000 block of East Firth Street, Philadelphia, and Robert Henry Hudicek, 21, of the 2600 block of East Coral Street, Philadelphia.

It began near Philadelphia International Airport at 2:29 a.m. Police said an officer saw the men removing a television set, a VCR and a laptop computer from vehicles parked at the Radisson Hotel.

Tinicum Township Police Chief Robert T. Lythgoe Jr. said officers tried to make an arrest, but the suspects ``attempted to run over two police officers.''

That triggered a 90 m.p.h. chase up I-95. The suspects sped past the Veterans Stadium area, crossed the Walt Whitman Bridge into Deptford, and came back across the bridge into Pennsylvania.

They then flew south on I-95, looped through the arrival area at the airport and headed back north on the expressway - all the way to Franklin Mills in the Far Northeast, where they turned south once again, exiting at the Cottman exit, where, at 3:39 a.m., they gave up.

They were charged with theft, receiving stolen property, aggravated assault on police, fleeing and attempting to elude police, and other offenses, police said.

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