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Tampa man captured after chase in Miami
By ANGELA MOORE © St. Petersburg Times, published September 27, 1998 Edward Markovitch, 46, of 10610 N 30th St., was in critical condition Saturday in a Miami hospital. Tampa police spokesman Steve Cole said Metro Dade police saw Markovitch in a 1989 Cadillac that had been carjacked Thursday from two men in St. Petersburg. The car was on a statewide alert as stolen, so Metro Dade police pursued Markovitch. "We hear he may have been involved in another robbery (in Miami) prior to the chase," Cole said. Markovitch is wanted for two robberies in Tampa on Thursday. Police say that in both robberies he shot at his victims but did not injure them. Markovitch is also wanted for questioning in the slaying of an acquaintance, Joseph Daniels, 61, who was found shot to death late Thursday in his Drew Park home. After robbing two people on Manhattan Avenue early Thursday morning, police said, Markovitch drove off in Daniels' 1983 blue Chrysler Concorde, shooting at the men he had just robbed. Later in the day, the stolen Chrysler got a flat tire in St. Petersburg. When two men in a 1989 Cadillac stopped to help, Markovitch stole their car and fired two shots at them, police said. On Friday, police said, he crashed the Cadillac in Miami. Tampa police did not know Daniels had been killed until they went to his home Thursday night to tell him they had recovered his car in St. Petersburg. Cole said Markovitch has an extensive criminal record. In August, he was charged with burglary, theft, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released from jail Sept. 19.
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Tampa man wanted for questioning in a murder and two violent robberies was captured in Miami after a police chase that ended in a crash.
