Crime & Safety

Police Announce Arrest in Sicklerville Car Burglaries

Gloucester Township Police have charged a Williamstown teen with 13 car burglaries in late July.

Gloucester Township Police issued the following statement Thursday regarding the arrest of a Williamstown teen in connection with more than a dozen car burglaries in the Sicklerville developments of Wye Oak and Woods Edge:

On July 27, 2012, Gloucester Township Police were dispatched to the Wye Oak and Woods Edge developments for several reported vehicle burglaries that occurred sometime between midnight and 5 a.m., from vehicles that were left unlocked. There were no suspects at the time of the initial reports.        

The Gloucester Township Police Investigations Bureau recently received information that an item stolen from one of the vehicles was located at a pawn shop in a nearby county. Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Unit immediately followed up on the lead as a suspect was able to be identified and brought in for an interview. The suspect was interviewed and connected to nine 9 vehicle burglaries in the Wye Oak development along with four 4 vehicle burglaries in the Woods Edge development of Gloucester Township.

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The suspect, a 17-year-old male juvenile from Williamstown, was charged and released to his parent on a juvenile petition pending court. He was charged with 13 total counts of burglary and theft from vehicles. His name is being withheld due to his age.

Residents are reminded to lock their car doors to help prevent being a victim of this type of crime. Keeping your car doors unlocked not only exposes your vehicle and home, but the entire neighborhood to that opportunity for criminals to strike. Make yourself and others a harder rather then easy target by securing your car with locked doors.

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