BORDENTOWN CITY
Police charged a Trenton woman with shoplifting after getting a call from a city pharmacy Tuesday afternoon.
Ashley Wormley, 38, was charged after police say officers responded to Mast Pharmacy on Farnsworth Avenue around 1:15 p.m. Police said officers were directed toward Prince Street where they found Ms. Wormley, who allegedly stole $80 worth of candles from the store.
Ms. Wormley was released on her own recognizance pending a court appearance.
Police are seeking the vandal who reportedly smashed the windows of a car waiting to be repaired at a service station on Dec. 30.
According to police, the driver and passenger windows of a car left at the Bordentown Exxon on Route 130/206 overnight had been smashed. The damages were estimated at $470, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (609) 298-0103.
BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP
A Burlington man was charged with driving while intoxicated after police officers spotted him swerving along Ward Avenue near Livingston Lane at 2:43 a.m. Sunday, police said.
Police officers stopped Glenn A. Brodbeck Jr. of Bustleton Road when they saw his 1996 white Chevrolet Blazer repeatedly cross the center line and almost strike the curb, according to reports.
When the officers approached Mr. Brodbeck, he was uncooperative, police said. He resisted arrest and then refused to blow into the Breathalyzer, police said. Mr. Brodbeck was given a summons and released, police said.
A 1995 black Honda Civic was reported stolen from the Hillcrest apartment complex on Hilltop Drive at sometime between 6:30 p.m. Dec. 23 and 2:56 a.m. Dec. 24, police said.
The owner of the vehicle told police that he returned home Dec. 24 and saw that his car was missing from the parking lot, according to reports. Police checked the area where the car was parked, but did not find any physical evidence, police said.
FLORENCE
Police on Jan. 9 charged a Burlington man with filing a false police report regarding a truck allegedly stolen in December.
According to police, 64-year-old William Hemingway turned himself in to township police after being issued a warrant for his arrest. Police said Mr. Hemingway had signed over the title of his 1999 Ford pickup truck in December to someone in New York state and then reported the vehicle stolen. After township officers spotted the truck, police said, their investigation found that it had not been stolen.
Mr. Hemingway posted 10 percent of his $2,500 bail and was released, pending a court appearance.
Police charged a Burlington man with a string of substance-related offenses after a routine traffic stop Jan. 8.
According to police, officers spotted Zackary Warren, 41, making an illegal U-turn at the intersection of Route 130 and Florence-Columbus Road around 2 a.m. At the stop, police said, officers spotted two clear plastic bags containing "a white rock-like substance" suspected to be cocaine. In the center console, police said, officers spotted a $10 bill that was rolled as if to be used to inhale cocaine. Some of the white rocky substance was also found inside the rolled bill, police said.
Police charged Mr. Warren with driving under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance (CDS), possession of a CDS, possession of a CDS in a motor vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia and making an illegal U-turn. He was released to the custody of a relative after posting 10 percent of $2,500 bail.
Police charged a West Second Street man wanted by the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest shortly after 9 p.m. Jan. 7.
According to police, officers spotted 18-year-old Anthony Harris, wanted by the Sheriff’s Department on armed robbery charges, inside the Downtown Tavern of Foundry Street. When the officers apprehended him, police said, Mr. Harris began to fight with them, ultimately managing to kick out the rear window of the police car after he was placed inside.
After being charged by township police, Mr. Harris was taken to the Burlington County Jail where he is being held without bail on the Sheriff’s Department charges.
Police on Jan. 5 charged a 21-year-old East Fourth Street man in connection with a pair of burglaries to a Broad Street Laundromat.
According to police, officers on patrol noticed the back door of the laundry was not secure. A week prior, the same business had been broken into, said police. Police said the burglaries netted less than $100 in coins and caused approximately $600 in property damages.
The investigation led police to the home of Jeffery Akers, who when questioned confessed to both the Jan. 5 break-in and the Dec. 31 break-in, police said. Mr. Akers was charged with two counts of burglary, theft and criminal mischief and with one count of possession of burglary tools. He was taken to the Burlington County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bail.

