A fugitive wanted by US marshals led authorities on a wild, high-speed car chase for 48 miles — from New Jersey to Brooklyn — before being nabbed Tuesday, officials said.
Anthony Mazza, 41, had been on the lam since blowing off a sentencing for aggravated assault when marshals from the agency’s Fugitive Task Force got a tip that he was in Old Bridge, NJ, authorities said.
The marshals went to the area and soon spotted him sitting in the passenger seat of his car with a female driver at the wheel and another man in the back, officials said. The marshals pulled the vehicle over, but Mazza suddenly kicked the woman out, hopped into the driver’s seat and sped off, sources said.
The suspect wheeled onto the Garden State Parkway, where New Jersey State Police joined in the chase. He went over the Outerbridge Crossing into Staten Island and then crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge — where he struck an MTA car — and into Brooklyn as NYPD and Port Authority police joined the pursuit.
At one point, Mazza allegedly smashed into the back of a Port Authority cop car from behind on the Staten Island Expressway and Victory Boulevard, sending two officers to the hospital.
The two cops in that car were treated at Richmond University Medical Center, but their injuries were not life-threatening.
Sources said three MTA bridge-and-tunnel officers Lawrence Ffrench, John Magenta, and Joseph Muriel, as well as an NYPD captain, finally helped apprehend him and his passenger after he smashed into two parked cars in Bensonhurst at about 2:30 p.m.
The passenger got out and tried to flee, but was quickly taken into custody, sources added.
“This could have been far worse if not for all these other agencies that responded so quickly and brought this pursuit to a successful end,” said the marshals’ spokesman Mike Schroeder.
“We’re grateful and thankful for all of their help.”
Authorities charged Mazza with eluding police and the aggravated assault of officers and will be extradited back to New Jersey.
A warrant was originally put out for him Feb. 13 — when he skipped his sentencing for a domestic-violence assault rap.