"Somebody needs to tell them they need to stop this chase. . . . All that's going to happen is they're going to get somebody killed. If they keep it up, I'm going to hit a car head-on."
Bussinger wound up sideswiping some cars and slamming his 2002 Durango into a truck after exiting the expressway at 30th Street, police said. He surrendered after police found him hiding in an empty Amtrak train at 30th Street Station.
Plumstead police said Bussinger stole the Durango from the Fred Beans Dodge Dealership on Route 313 on Nov. 30. Giving his real name, he went on a test drive with an employee and then told the man he was stealing the car.
Police said Bussinger offered the employee $100 for the inconvenience and later called to apologize, saying he needed the car to escape his New Jersey parole officer.
Bussinger, of Hatboro, was being held last night by Philadelphia police. He was awaiting the filing of charges by law enforcement agencies ranging from local authorities to the FBI and the New Jersey State Police.
Police said Bussinger, who had recently been paroled from a New Jersey prison after serving a sentence for theft and other crimes, was suspected in at least two bank robberies in Pennsylvania in December and possibly in two casino robberies in Atlantic City during the same month.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner John F. Timoney said Bussinger was familiar with police jargon and had outfitted his stolen Dodge Durango with police strobe lights and stolen government license plates.
Police say Bussinger's odyssey began shortly before 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a Fleet Bank on Old York Road in Abington. Just a half-hour earlier, Abington police had warned the bank's employees to be on the lookout for a bank robber believed to be driving a Dodge Durango.
