NORTH ATTLEBORO - Four alleged professional shoplifters apprehended after a two-state chase were ordered held in jail on high bail Monday after a district court judge voiced concern about their criminal history and doubts about their identities.

Attleboro District Court Judge Richard A. Savignano set bail at $150,000 cash for each of the defendants following a bail hearing in which he was told the suspects have committed similar crimes in a half-dozen other states and have numerous aliases.

"I'm trying to keep track of the countless aliases they have in these records," Savignano said, looking through the paperwork filed by police.

The suspects, all from New Jersey, were arrested Friday night after a chase that started in East Providence, R.I., where the men allegedly stole $5,500 worth of clothing from Marshall's department store, and ended after a foot chase off Interstate 95 near Toner Boulevard.

A state police helicopter and police dog assisted Attleboro, North Attleboro and Seekonk police searching for two of the suspects, who were not immediately apprehended when they abandoned a car police had disabled with "stop sticks" on Route 152. The suspects, identified as Eric Burgos, 35, of Newark, N.J., and Johan Valdivia, 25, and Jorge Espinozo, 27, both of Elizabeth, N.J., pleaded innocent to numerous charges, including receiving stolen property and being fugitives in Rhode Island where the clothing thefts occurred.

Alberto Rojas, 37, of Elizabeth, N.J., faces arraignment today because a Spanish interpreter was not available Monday for the court proceeding.

North Attleboro police court prosecutor Christopher Ciccio said the store has surveillance videotape of the men stealing racks of clothing, stuffing them in "booster bags" and fleeing with a carriage.

Booster bags are shopping bags taped with material that foils security equipment and are used by professional shoplifters to commit their crimes, according to law enforcement officials.

Police said they had difficulty identifying the four men immediately after their arrest because three of them gave false names. Police were only able to make positive identifications after sending their fingerprints to federal authorities.

They are due back in court Oct. 28 for a pretrial conference.