Driving Under the Influence Alec Rudenstein, 20, of Carnation Place, Lawrence Township, was arrested about 12:35 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, and charged with underage driving under the influence, reckless driving, having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle and speeding, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said Officer Scott Stein stopped Rudenstein’s vehicle after observing it traveling 42 mph along Princeton Avenue, which has a speed limit of 25 mph. *   *   * Driving Under the Influence Petras Keliuotis, 44, of San Francisco, Calif., was arrested about 1:…

Prostitution Qiaoling Yang, 43, of Flushing, N.Y. was arrested about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, and charged with engaging in prostitution and promoting prostitution after she allegedly offered an undercover officer sex in exchange for money in a room at the Red Roof Inn in the 3200 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1), according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said the undercover officer, in response to a suspicious advertisement that police found online, arranged to meet the suspect at the motel. The investigation is continuing with the assistance of U.S. Immigration and…

Burglary The theft of more than $8,000 worth of jewelry during a burglary to a residence on Cold Soil Road is under investigation by Lawrence Township detectives, police department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry said. The crime – believed to have taken place between 8:15 and 10:45 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 24, while no one was home – was discovered about 5:30 p.m. when the homeowner returned from work and discovered that his bedroom had been ransacked and a jewelry box was missing, Ubry said, noting that the man’s wife had gotten home earlier but hadn’t yet gone into the bedroom. No evidence of forced …

Burglary A burglary that took place at Yielded Vessels Fellowship, a house of worship located in the 600 block of Whitehead Road in Lawrence Township, remains under investigation by township police, according to police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said the break-in occurred between 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, and noon on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The burglar entered the building by breaking the lower panel on a glass door. Stolen were about $350 worth of property, including a television, DVD player, video game console and assorted game discs, he said. Detective Robert Potter and Officer Robert …

Prostitution Shirley Barbedo, 43, of Newark was arrested about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge in the 2900 block of Route 1 (Brunswick Pike) and charged with engaging in prostitution and promoting prostitution, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. An undercover officer, responding to a suspicious advertisement that police spotted online, arranged to meet Barbedo at the motel, he said, explaining that Barbedo was taken into custody after she allegedly offered the undercover officer sex in exchange for money. *   *   * Motor Vehicle …

  Assault/Robbery At 1:37 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, Lawrence Township police were notified that an assault and robbery had allegedly taken place on the township’s side of the Brunswick Circle a few hours earlier, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. The victim, a 53-year-old resident of Trenton, told police he was walking in the area about 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, when he was knocked to the ground by two men who came up from behind and tore his wallet – containing $40 – from his pocket, Ubry said. The victim was unable to provide any detailed descriptions of his …

Child Abuse On Thursday, Aug. 30, a 28-year-old Lawrence Township woman was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, according to township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. The investigation began, Ubry said, after Lawrence Township detectives were contacted by Princeton Borough police who had received information alleging that the 28-year-old was physically abusing her 3-year-old son. Township Detective William Chester and Officer Robert Loveless conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and the New Jersey Department of …

Driving Under the Influence Stephen Williams, 53, of Library Place, Princeton Borough, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving and driving without a valid license after the Honda CRV he was operating was stopped by police in the drive-thru lane of the McDonald's on Brunswick Circle Extension on Monday, Aug. 27, according to Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. Ubry said police responded to the restaurant after receiving a call at 9:07 a.m. from a concerned citizen reporting that Williams appeared to be driving in an “impaired” …

Driving Under the Influence Ronald Miller, 33, of Nathan Hale Drive, Lawrence Township, was charged with driving under the influence, assault by auto and reckless driving after the vehicle he was driving allegedly caused three-vehicle collision that injured a young child and a pregnant woman on Saturday, Aug. 18, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said the accident occurred shortly before 8 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) when Miller’s vehicle hit the rear of another auto stopped for a red light at the intersection with …

Burglary Lawrence Township police are investigating a burglary that took place at the former Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Co. substation on Lawrence Square Boulevard North during the early hours of Tuesday, Aug. 14, according to police department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said police discovered pry marks and other evidence indicating that someone tried to force their way into the old firehouse, which is now used by the township public works department for storage. The fire company stopped using the building many years ago because not enough volunteers lived close enough to adequately staff …

  Motor Vehicle Theft Officer Thomas Chianese is investigating the theft of a vehicle which was later located after it was involved in an accident, according to Detective Sgt. Joseph Amodio, a Lawrence Township police spokesman. It was 8:32 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 6, when police were informed that a vehicle’s bumper was lying in the middle of the road on Darrah Lane near Lawrence Road (Route 206), Amodio said. He said Officer Chianese responded and found evidence that the bumper had fallen off after a vehicle struck a nearby guardrail. Using the number of the license plate that was still …

Burglary Assorted jewelry worth “several thousand” dollars was stolen during a residential burglary on Van Kirk Road on Thursday, Aug. 2, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. A resident called police at 6:26 p.m. after discovering her property missing, Ubry said. He said police believe the burglar got into the house by cutting the screen on a first-floor window, possibly between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. that day. He said Officer Iwona Smith and Detective Todd Caruso are leading the investigation. *   *   *   Burglary At 2:53 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1, police were notified…

Burglary Detective James Smith is investigating a residential burglary that took place on Dayna Lane, off Lawrenceville-Pennington Road, on Tuesday, July 24. More than $2,000 in jewelry was stolen during the break-in but the property was later recovered by police, according to Lt. Mark Ubry, township police spokesman. Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, Ubry declined to disclose specific details of the crime. It was about 6:20 p.m. that day when a neighbor called police to report that, about a half-hour earlier, he had spotted three men he did not recognize acting “suspiciously” …

Drug Offense Jonathan Johnson Jr., a 21-year-old resident of Elmer Street in Trenton, was charged with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana and providing alcohol to a minor after he was arrested about 2:45 p.m. on Monday, July 16, at the Red Roof Inn in the 3200 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1), according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. Police went to the motel in search of a township teenager who had run away from home and been reported missing by her family, Ubry said. When the girl was found, he said, she was in the company of Johnson. He said Johnson was taken …

Burglary At 7:26 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, residents of the 2600 block of Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) called police to report they had just returned home to find that someone had broken into their residence and stolen over $2,000 worth of cash and property, including a television and jewelry, Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry said. He said the burglar(s) gained entry by smashing a window adjacent to the home’s front door. The break-in took place sometime during the preceding 24 hours while the residents were away from the home, he said. The crime is being investigated …

Aggravated Assault Dominick Elisio, 62, of Miller Street in Trenton, has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault for allegedly punching a 74-year-old woman, according to Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. The victim was at work in Rose’s Laundromat in the 1000 block of Brunswick Avenue when Elisio entered the business early Saturday morning, June 16, and started going through ash trays in search of cigarette butts he could smoke, Ubry said. After 74-year-old advised Elisio that he was on private property and asked him to leave, Elisio allegedly punched the …

Burglary A burglary in which thousands of dollars worth of copper pipes were stolen, causing a water leak that completely flooded the basement of a home, in under investigation, Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry said. He said the break-in occurred to a vacant house in the 200 block of Lawrence Road (Route 206) sometime between May 20 and Monday, June 4. The owner called police at 1:58 p.m. on June 4 after he went to check on the property and discovered the damage, Ubry said. He said water filled the basement almost all the way up to the first floor, completely …

  Driving Under the Influence Justin Kramer, a 22-year-old Lawrence Township resident, was arrested about 2:50 a.m. on Sunday, May 27, and charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving and careless driving after he allegedly performed poorly on field sobriety tests, according to Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry. He said the arrest was made by Officer Erini Papafilipakis after she was sent to investigate a complaint about a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the Lucky 7 delicatessen at the corner of Lawrence Road (Route 206) and Princeton Avenue…

Burglary Lawrence Township police are working to identify a woman who allegedly broke into a Roxboro Road house but ran off empty-handed after a resident stopped home on his lunch break from school last Friday (May 18). Upon arriving home for lunch about 11:20 a.m., the 18-year-old spotted an open window in the residence. While he was phoning his mother to ask her if she had left the window open, the teenager heard the sound of the Bilco doors that lead out of the home’s basement being opened, according to Lt. Mark Ubry, a police department spokesman. Looking outside, the teenager saw a woman…

Burglary Lawrence Township police are investigating a burglary that took place at the Lucky 7 delicatessen, located at the corner of Route 206 (Lawrence Road) and Princeton Avenue, in the early hours of Wednesday, May 9, police department spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar said. Officers, responding to a burglar alarm system activation that was reported at 2:11 a.m., arrived to find that someone had smashed out the glass of the deli’s front door and had stolen an undetermined amount of cigarettes, cigars and cash, he said. *   *   * Fraud Tiffany C. Goodson, 35, from Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested …