Crime & Safety
Car Stolen From Lawrence Recovered in Easton, Pa.
Police in Easton, Pa., said the man who was driving the stolen car claimed it belonged to his mother, yet he didn't know her name. Lawrence Township police confirmed the car is the one that was stolen during the burglary on Lanning Avenue on May 28.
“What’s your mother’s name?”
“I don’t know.”
That’s what a police officer in Easton, Pa., encountered early Wednesday (June 6) after he stopped a car – which was later found to have been stolen from Lawrence Township – with an extremely loud radio.
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The radio could be heard more than 40 feet away and it was almost 3 a.m., according to Pennsylvania court records obtained by . The stop of the silver Toyota Corolla was at South 10th and Washington streets in Easton.
The driver, Ogemar S. Moye Jr., 20, of Ewing Township, did not have a valid driver’s license. The officer, Patrolman Ryan Celia, then discovered the car had been reported stolen by the Lawrence Township Police Department.
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When Celia asked whose vehicle he was driving, Moye “indicated it was his mother’s vehicle,” the court records say. Then Celia said, “When I asked him her name, he stated that he didn’t know.”
The car had a temporary Pennsylvania tag and was registered to a woman whose address was not listed.
Lawrence Township police Wednesday evening confirmed that the Toyota Corolla that Moye was driving was the same one that was .
The keys to the Toyota were taken after someone got into the house by cutting through a screen leading onto an enclosed porch, according to information previously released by Lawrence Township police.
“We’ve been working with Easton police all day,” Lawrence Township police Lt. Charles Edgar said late Wednesday night. “We’re investigating the circumstances of him [Moye] being in possession of the car and if he had anything to do with the burglary.”
Following his arrest in Easton, Moye was arraigned Wednesday morning by on-duty District Judge Diane Marakovits of Northampton, Pa., on charges of receiving stolen property, drivers required to be licensed and a noise ordinance violation.
Moye was committed to after failing to post $25,000 bail.
This story was written by Jack Tobias for Easton (Pa.) Patch, with additional material contributed by Lawrenceville Patch Editor Michael Ratcliffe.
