Sexual Assault Lawrence Township police are investigating a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in the Avalon Run apartment complex this week, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the township police department. He said police were notified at 10:59 a.m. Monday, Sept. 12, after the victim went to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton seeking treatment and told medical staff there that she had been sexually assaulted. The woman told police she was assaulted sometime late Sunday night, Sept. 11, or early Monday morning, Sept. 12, after she accompanied two male …
Drug and Prostitution Arrests Numerous Lawrence Township police officers raced to the Mount’s Motel in the 2900 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1) about 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, July 10, after a 911 call was received in which a guest at the motel claimed that he had just been threatened by a man with a gun. When officers arrived, they met with the 911 caller and soon concluded that the man had made up the story about the gunman, according to Lawrence Township police spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar. Officers determined that the man – identified as James Anthony Patitucci, 49, of Pine Hill – was “under…
Drug Arrest Jonathan D. Alston, 20, of White Pine Circle in Lawrence was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana under 50 grams and possession of drug paraphernalia after the Honda Civic he was driving was stopped by Officer Chris DiMeglio about 12:15 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for Lawrence Township Police Department. Edgar said DiMeglio stopped Alston’s car on Lawrence Road (Route 206) near Millerick Avenue after observing a routine traffic violation, but while he was interviewing Alston the officer allegedly smelled an odor of marijuana …
Accidental Injury Officer Chris Schuster and emergency medical personnel responded to the Comfort Inn in the 3200 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1) at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, June 24, after a 1-year-old boy had the tip of one of his fingers cut off, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for Lawrence Township Police Department. Edgar said the boy’s finger was in the way when his sister closed the door to the bathroom of the family’s hotel room. The boy, along with his sister and their 42-year-old mother, was rushed by ambulance to University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment of the …
Investigation Police are investigating whether or not there is a connection between two unusual incidents that occurred on Carr Avenue just days apart, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the Lawrence Township Police Department. It was 2:21 p.m. on Monday, June 13, when police received a call from a 69-year-old woman alleging that a man had just exposed his private parts to her, Edgar said. The woman told police she was visiting the home of a relative on Carr Avenue when she got into a dispute with her relative’s neighbor who, she alleged, became “verbally abusive.” During the …
Impersonating a Police Officer Johnny L. Fields, 50, of the 200 block of Hamilton Avenue in Trenton, was arrested about 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 11, on a charge alleging he impersonated a police officer, according to Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar. Edgar said police received a complaint from a motorist who claimed that Fields was driving aggressively on Princeton Pike and had, among other things, illegally passed the caller’s vehicle on the right. The caller followed Fields’ vehicle to the Lawrence Shopping Center, which is where police caught up with him…
Drug Arrest Most people would probably agree that it’s never really smart to litter. Most people would also probably agree that it’s especially not smart litter within sight of a police officer – particularly when you’ve just used an illegal drug and don’t really want to draw attention to yourself. But that, allegedly, is exactly what Timothy D. Williams did while driving through Lawrence Township during the evening of Thursday, June 9, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the township police department. Williams, 23, of the 100 block of North Johnston Avenue in Hamilton Township, …
DUI Michael E. Brower, 45, of Denow Road in Lawrence Township, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving during the early morning of Thursday, June 2, according to Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar. Officer Chris DiMeglio was on patrol when, shortly after 1:30 a.m., he allegedly saw Brower driving a 2006 Ford van in an “erratic manner,” Edgar said. DiMeglio stopped the van on Lawrence Road (Route 206) near Irwin Place. While speaking to Brower, DiMeglio detected a “strong odor of alcohol from the driver and the vehicle,” Edgar said. He said field sobriety tests …
Drug Arrests Six people were charged with drug-related offenses during four separate incidents that took place in Lawrence Township during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to Lt. Charles Edgar spokesman for the township police department. The first incident began at 7:14 p.m. on Friday, May 27, when Jonathan Mowbray, 24, of Estates Boulevard in Hamilton Township, contacted police to allege that his cell phone had been stolen by a man and a woman who had rented a room at the Sleep-E-Hollow motel in the 3000 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1), Edgar said. He said officers met with …
Burglary Two people – Garrett P. McGann, 34, of the 600 block of Concord Circle in Ewing and Koryanne Bilbee Vestal, 32, of the 100 block of Ridge Drive, Middletown, Pa. – were charged with attempted burglary after they were allegedly observed trying to get into several parked cars at Mercer Mall on Saturday, May 21, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the Lawrence Township Police Department. It was 8:51 p.m. when police received a report that a “suspicious” man and woman were wandering around the parking lot of the mall in the 3300 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1). The two were …
Shopliftings Four shoplifting suspects – one as young as 13, another as old as 72 – were arrested by Lawrence Township police during three separate incidents on Thursday, May 19, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, police department spokesman. Jennie Miller, 72, of the 1500 block of Parkside Avenue, Ewing, was arrested shortly after 4 p.m. that day for allegedly trying to steal $60 worth of assorted merchandise – including gum, tape, cooking spray and markers – from the Acme supermarket at Lawrence Shopping Center in the 2400 block of Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1), Edgar said. He said a store…
Criminal Mischief Police Officers Michael Whitmore and Mark Harmon are investigating who damaged four mailboxes – one on Brandon Road, two on Toftrees Court and one on Lawrenceville-Pennington Road – sometime between Tuesday night, May 17, and Wednesday morning, May 18, said Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for Lawrence Township Police Department. Edgar said police received the first of several calls about the damage at 7:15 a.m. on May 18 and the last at 3:49 that afternoon. Some of the mailboxes were completely knocked off their posts, while others were just damaged, he said, noting that …
Robbery Lawrence Township police have identified one of two suspects wanted in connection with a robbery and assault that took place at the CVS Pharmacy in the 1900 block of Brunswick Pike, at the corner of Cherry Tree Lane, on Sunday, May 15, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the township police department. He said police allege that Melissa Deems, 33, of the 100 block of Aldrich Drive in Falls, Pa., entered the CVS shortly before 7:45 p.m. and went behind the sales counter in an apparent attempt to steal cartons of cigarettes. When she was confronted by store employees, Deems …
Theft Officer Thomas Chianese is investigating the theft of $790 worth of merchandise – five bras and 40 panties – from the Victoria’s Secret store at Quaker Bridge Mall in the 3300 block of Brunswick Pike (Route 1), according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the Lawrence Township Police Department. He said the crime was reported to police at 7:48 p.m. on Saturday, May 14. Several different thefts of bras took place at the Victoria’s Secret store at the mall last month, although it is unclear at this time in there is any connection between those earlier crimes and the most-recent theft…
Attempted Burglary & Theft Lawrence Township police are investigation if there is any connection between an attempted burglary and a property theft that took place just blocks apart during the evening of Wednesday, May 11, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for the township police department. He said it was 9:52 p.m. when a 66-year-old resident of Yorkshire Village Road, in the development behind Mercer Mall, called police to report that she had been home watching TV when she heard a noise at her front door. She went to the door, turned on her front porch light and looked outside to …
DUI A 17-year-old boy from Puritan Avenue in Lawrence Township was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after he was allegedly seen driving a vehicle at a slow speed without any headlights on late Sunday, May 8, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for Lawrence Township Police Department. Officer Chris DiMeglio pulled the vehicle over after spotting it traveling on Brunswick Avenue, near the Brunswick Traffic Circle, about 11:55 p.m. Upon speaking to the driver, DiMeglio allegedly detected an odor of alcoholic beverage on the teenager’s breath, according to Edgar. He said the 17-year-…
DUI Jaimie Stein, 26, of Hamilton Township, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after the car she was driving flipped over onto its roof late on Thursday, May 5, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, spokesman for Lawrence Township Police Department. Stein was driving on the Kelly Viaduct, the overpass that links Quaker Bridge Mall with the southbound side of Brunswick Pike (Route 1), when her car hit the curb and rolled over about 11:20 p.m. Township police, volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel responded to the accident and found that Stein had suffered only minor injuries…
Criminal Sexual Contact A 14-year-old student at Notre Dame High School was arrested on Friday, April 29, on a charge alleging he touched a female classmate in an inappropriate way while on school grounds after school hours, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, a spokesman for Lawrence Township police. The incident allegedly took place during the afternoon of Wednesday, April 27. The victim, a 14-year-old girl, and the suspect, who lives in Ewing Township, were "hanging out" about 4:30 p.m. following a sporting event that took place at the parochial school in the 600 block of Lawrence Road (Route …
Dog Attack A Yorkshire terrier was fatally injured when it was attacked by two Great Danes during the morning of Thursday, April 21, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, a Lawrence Township Police Department spokesman. Edgar said it was 11:43 a.m. when a 26-year-old resident of Indiana Avenue called police to report that while she was walking her Yorkie, two large dogs ran up from a residence in the 1500 block of Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) and attacked. He said the woman was bitten on her left index finger while she was trying to free her small pet from the jaw of one of the Great Danes. …
Thefts/Shopliftings Lawrence Township police are investigating several thefts that have taken place recently at the Victoria’s Secret store at Quaker Bridge Mall in the 3300 block of Brunswick Pike, according to police department spokesman Lt. Charles Edgar. At 2:14 p.m. on Friday, April 8, police were alerted to the theft of about $1,000 worth of merchandise from the store, he said. Then, at 4:37 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, police were notified that 20 bras in sizes 36B and 36C had been stolen from the store sometime between 2 and 4:30 p.m. that day, he said, noting that those items were …
