Burglary of a Vehicle - On May 9, 2013, a business owner at Route 9 and Second Street in Forked River reported that between the late-night/early-morning hours of 1:50 a.m. and 3:20 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, 2013, an unknown actor(s) smashed the window of a vehicle thereby gaining access to the contents within the vehicle. Over $300 in damage was done to the vehicle and an unknown value of items possibly stolen from the vehicle.  

UPDATE: Theft & Obstructing - The Lacey Township Police Department received a call at 9:10 a.m. from an alert resident who observed two subjects in a silver/grey pickup truck cutting an air conditioning unit from a home on Tiller Drive in Sunrise Beach. The truck was reported to have backed up onto the homeowner's property with the ends of rear license plate of the pickup truck bent inward so as to obstruct the plate numbers and letters. The suspects cut the lines of the air conditioning unit from the home and loaded it into the bed of the pickup truck. When the homeowner opened his garage door to check why the truck was on his property, the suspects sped away from the scene with the tailgate of the truck still down. Officer Louis Brignola quickly located the vehicle near the 7-11 on Rt. 9 in Lanoka Harbor. Upon seeing the officers, the two males fled on foot. Sgt. James Tranz pursued 20-year-old John Clifton on foot and apprehended him in the wooded area behind the 7-11 store. The other subject, identified as 18-year-old Casey Sinopoli of Lanoka Harbor, fled through the woods. John Clifton was arrested and transported to police headquarters. The stolen air conditioning unit was found in the bed of the truck that the two abandoned when [...]