Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A Lindenwold man's leap falls flat as he reportedly tries to beat a burglary arrest.
A Lindenwold man took to the air in an effort to avoid arrest after an officer interrupted a burglary attempt, according to Gloucester Township Police. Thomas Kemble, 36, cut a second-story window and jumped from the garage of the home he was allegedly attempting to burglarize. A police officer, responding to an alarm, reportedly found Kemble in the Innsbruck Drive home Wednesday before 1 p.m. The officer witnessed Kemble, apparently spooked by the police arrival, cut the window screen and jump from the garage. The officer arrested Kemble in the driveway. Neither was hurt in the escape attempt. Gloucester Township Police say Kemble, of Blackwood Clementon Road, Lindenwold, was placing items into a bag before he was discovered. He was …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Mark Gravatt was charged Saturday in the burglary of a Chews Landing Road home.
Social media strikes again. A suspect in a residential burglary turned himself into Gloucester Township police on Saturday morning, just hours after the department posted on its Facebook page and YouTube account video footage of him committing the crime, according to a news release. The burglary occurred Jan. 11 at a home in the 1100 block of Chews Landing Road. The homeowner provided police with closed-circuit video footage of the suspect burglarizing the home, and stealing copper piping and other items from the property. Police posted the footage on Friday evening. After police received numerous anonymous tips, the suspect, identified as Mark Gravatt, turned himself in at the police station. Gravatt, 39, of the unit block of Antietam…
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The search was on for a burglary suspect along Big Timber Creek, including in the waterway.
Police and rescue crews were searching for a burglary suspect along Big Timber Creek, off Clements Bridge Road (Route 41) in the area where Gloucester Township's Glendora section meets Deptford and Runnemede, Wednesday afternoon. At least two rescue boats were dispatched into the waterway to aid in the search. The male suspect was being sought in connection with a residential burglary that occurred in Glendora, Gloucester Township Police Capt. Jeffrey Weiserth said at the scene. Police received reports someone fitting the suspect's description was observed in the area and was accompanied by a white female, Capt. Anthony Minosse said Wednesday evening. The search began around 1:30 p.m. after police responded to a West Front Street home …
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Police arrested accused burglar Giuseppe D'Agostino after a resident called to report he'd entered a home on Fairmount Avenue. Another neighbor helped police find him.
Two eagle-eyed residents helped Gloucester Township police catch a burglary suspect. Police said a resident contacted them just after 11:30 p.m. Friday to report that a man had just entered his neighbor's home, and that the neighbor was on vacation. Responding officers found the rear window of the residence on Fairmount Avenue smashed. As officers searched the area, police recieved a separate call that a man matching the description of the burglary suspect was reaching into a vehicle. Police caught the suspect, 29-year-old Giuseppe D'Agostino, in the area of Indiana Avenue. He was arrested and charged with burglary, criminal attempt and theft. D'Agostino, of the 400 block of Berlin Road, Clementon, was held in the Camden County Jail on…
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Juan Anderson faces multiple charges in connection with an attempted burglary Aug. 29.
After officers allegedly caught him red-handed trying to break into a Blackwood apartment, Juan Anderson tried to blame an overactive bladder for his behavior, Gloucester Township Police report. Anderson, 42, of Flagstone Drive, Erial, was presumably giving access to the toilets at Camden County Jail after he was held there on several charges. Police responded to the I building of Autumn Ridge Apartments at 1:47 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a suspicious man looking into an apartment and removing a screen from a ground-floor window. A witness reported seeing the suspect place the screen on the ground near a sliding glass door. Officers found Anderson, who matched the suspect description, crouching by a ground-floor window. Police describe…
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sharick A. Jenkins, 25, reportedly pilfered more than $7,000 in cigarettes this summer.
The great tobacco bandit has been captured, Gloucester Township Police announced. An Oaklyn man police accuse of going on a smash-and-grab spree at two local Heritage’s Dairy Stores was identified Saturday morning. Conveniently for Gloucester Township Police, he was already in jail. The $3,903 in cigarettes and cigars that Oaklyn’s Sharick A. Jenkins, 25, allegedly stole cost him $100,000 in bail on charges that he burglarized two Gloucester Township Heritage’s, plus a Woodbury store. Police were investigating the thefts after two smash-and-grabs on July 31. In both cases, Jenkins used a rock to knock out the window of the Heritage’s store and stole cigarettes and cigars, police said. The Heritage’s are on Williamstown Road in Sicklerville…
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S Black Horse Pike & Fairmount Ave, Blackwood, NJ
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The burglaries at the Williamstown Erial Road and Black Horse Pike stores occurred early Tuesday morning.
UPDATE on 7/31 at 3:20 p.m.: Police say the burglar, or burglars, smashed out windows to the Blackwood and Erial Heritage's stores with concrete chunks early Tuesday morning and stole cigarettes. Stay with Patch for more updates on this investigation. ---------- Original post headline (7/31 at 9:25 a.m.): Report: Smash-and-Grab Burglary at Heritage's Police are investigating a smash-and-grab burglary at the Heritage's store on Williamstown Erial Road, in the township's Erial section, early Tuesday morning. Two area Heritage's convenience stores were the scenes of smash-and-grab burglaries within about five minutes of each other at around 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to emergency communications scanner reports. The second burglary occurred at …
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old boy in a July 5 residential burglary in the township's Sicklerville section.
Police have charged a 17-year-old township resident with burglarizing a home in Sicklerville's Wye Oak development and stealing electronics and containers of coins earlier this month. The burglary, which was reported to police on July 6, occurred on Aberdeen Drive sometime between 8 and 9:15 p.m. July 5. It was discovered the burglar entered the home by breaking out glass to a rear door to the home with a rock, according to police. Shortly after the burglary, a shopper at a nearby Winslow Township supermarket reported to Winslow police that he observed juveniles acting suspiciously in the store, according to Gloucester Township Police Det. Sgt. James Schriver. That information was passed along to Gloucester Township investigators, and a …
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Monday, May 7, 2012
A Grenloch man is charged with stealing hot-water heaters from a Blackwood business.
Police say a pickup truck's obstructed license plate led to its driver's arrest Saturday on charges related to the theft of hot-water heaters from a Blackwood business. Several industrial hot-water heaters were stolen during a burglary at Triangle Tube on Friday, police said. Gloucester Township Police Ptl. Brian Mazzarella pulled over a white 2009 Chevrolet pickup truck operated by 28-year-old Grenloch man Robert H. Rowe Jr. Saturday on the Black Horse Pike, in the township's Blenheim section. The officer stopped the truck due to its license plate being "suspiciously obstructed," according to a press release issued by Sgt. Dominic Coppola Jr. During the traffic stop, Mazzarella observed a thermostat from a hot-water heater and discovered …
Monday, January 2, 2012
Matthew Bailey, 30, faces multiple burglary-related charges for allegedly stealing from a construction site.
A Gloucester Township man who allegedly helped himself to an armload of construction materials landed in a jail cell thanks to an observant citizen. Gloucester Township Police said a tipster called just before 11 a.m. on Jan. 2 to report a suspicious man near a Woodthrush Avenue home under construction. The caller said the man parked his vehicle and walked through yards, returning to his car carrying items, including copper tubing and wiring. The tipster gave police a description of the suspect and car, and responding offers located Matthew Bailey, 30, of Huntington Mews condominiums. Officers uncovered the items allegedly stolen, police said, and arrested Bailey. Bailey was jailed on $25,000 bail for burglary, criminal mischief, theft by …
Charles
2:40 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
If the perp' had tried to break into my house, I would hope he was successful. My two "guard dogs", Smitty and Wes, would have greeted him promptly. They would not greet the EMTs who would have responded a bit later. but I would have. more ›