Crime & Safety

Suspect in Recent Auto Thefts IDed, Arrested by Police

Lawrence Township police allege that Darryl Jester, a 49-year-old resident of Bunker Hill Road, recently stole two vehicles and also took property from several other unlocked autos. The two stolen autos were recovered by police earlier this week.

Two vehicles that were stolen in Lawrence Township recently were recovered by police this week and detectives have arrested the man who, they allege, took the vehicles and also stole property from several other unlocked autos in town.

Detective Todd Caruso arrested the suspect, Darryl Jester, 49, at Jester’s home on Bunker Hill Road in Lawrence at 11:05 a.m. Tuesday (Aug. 21) and charged with multiple counts of theft, according to police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry.

Less than two hours earlier on Tuesday, police recovered sometime between late Saturday night and Sunday morning (Aug. 18-19).

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Ubry said township detectives located the stolen Ford in the parking lot of The Crossings, an apartment complex located on Windsor Court and Schindler’s Way, off Eggerts Crossing Road in Ewing Township near the Lawrence border – and just a short walk from Bunker Hill Road.

On Sunday (Aug. 19), Ubry said, a maintenance worker at The Crossings called Ewing Township police to report that there was a suspicious vehicle parked in the lot there.

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He said Ewing police ran a computer check on that vehicle, a 2006 Mercury Grand Marquis, and learned it had been .

Both the Ford Flex and the Mercury Grand Marquis had been left unlocked by their respective owners, with the keys left in the vehicles.

Ubry said detectives have linked Jester as a suspect to the recent thefts of property from several unlocked vehicles. Among these are the theft of a GPS unit and loose change from three autos parked in driveways of homes along Eggerts Crossing Road during the overnight hours of Aug. 16 into the 17th.

Ubry said the investigation is continuing to determine if Jester can be linked as a suspect to other recent thefts, such as the during the overnight hours of July 22-23.

That Hyundai – which also had been left unlocked by its owner, with the keys inside it – was on Misty Morn Lane in Ewing Township on July 28. Misty Morn Lane is located off Eggerts Crossing Road, one block away from The Crossings development where the other two stolen vehicles were recovered.

Anyone with information that might help the investigation is asked to call police at (609) 896-1111.


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