GTPD: Social Media Tips Lead to Two Arrests
Police credit social media in the arrest of a man accused of stealing $27,000 worth of jewelry from Kmart in late September.
Gloucester Township police are crediting their social media efforts with two more arrests, including the apprehension of a man accused of stealing $27,000 worth of gold earrings from the Blackwood Clementon Road Kmart in late September. Investigators on Sept. 25 posted surveillance video of the Sept. 23 Kmart jewelry heist to the police department's YouTube page and released surveillance images on its Twitter and Facebook pages. The release of the surveillance video and images prompted several tips to the township's anonymous crime tip line, allowing the Criminal Investigations Bureau to identify Marvin Pollitt, 42, as a suspect, Capt. Anthony Minosse said. Police issued an arrest warrant for Pollitt on a third-degree shoplifting charge on…
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