Home on Lawn Park Avenue Burglarized, Ransacked

Lawrence Township police are investigating yet another burglary.

The latest break-in occurred yesterday, Thursday, Sept. 15, at a residence in the 100 block of Lawn Park Avenue.

A 31-year-old resident called police at 9:18 p.m. after she arrived home from work and discovered that someone had smashed out a rear window and ransacked her house, according to Lt. Charles Edgar, police department spokesman.

Reported by the women as having been stolen from the home were about $300 in cash and another $475 worth of property, including a camera, a small television and a Nintendo game console, Edgar said.

He said the burglary is believed to have occurred sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. while the woman and her husband were not home.

Detective William Chester is investigating the crime and anyone with information is asked to call him at (609) 896-1111.

The Lawn Park Avenue burglary comes on the heels of two other burglaries and an attempted burglary that occurred in less than 24 hours over the course of Wednesday and Thursday morning.

In those crimes, a hammer was stolen after someone broke into the enclosed rear porch of a home in the 1500 block of Ohio Avenue; someone smashed out a window and entered the Sunoco gas station in the 1700 block of Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) but nothing appeared to have been stolen; and someone shattered the glass doors and windows in an unsuccessful attempt to enter Captain Paul’s Firehouse Dogs restaurant on Princeton Pike.

Lawrence Township police are also investigating a recent burglary on Bakers Basin Road during which about $10,000 worth of property was stolen, as well as .