Lawrence: Police Blotter from the Jan. 15 edition

Susan Powers-Hunninghake, 39, of Registry Drive, was charged with child abandonment after passing motorists found her 4-year-old son wandering around outside the house at 8:04 a.m. Jan. 6, police said.
    Police received several calls from passing motorists about the child, who was clad only in his underwear and was found about 150 feet away from the house. The child was asleep when his mother left him home alone while she took his siblings to school, police said.
    She was issued a summons and released.
    Police are looking for a man who may have set fire to a car parked in Lot B at the Quaker Bridge Mall around 9 p.m. Jan. 10 that belonged to a Plainsboro Township resident.
    A Sears department store employee noticed the car was on fire and called the Quaker Bridge Mall security office, which in turn contacted the Police Department, according to police. The car was badly burned and was towed from the mall lot.
    A few minutes earlier, witnesses heard a small explosion and saw a man running away from the area, police said. The man ran toward Brunswick Pike.
    Kevin R. Gaff, 58, of Amy Court, in Robbinsville, was charged with shoplifting for allegedly taking clothing worth a combined $153 from Lord & Taylor at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 2:51 p.m. Jan. 12, police said. He was released on a summons.
    A Skillman Avenue resident told police someone broke the rear hatch window on his 2001 Dodge while it was parked in the driveway of his residence between 4 p.m. Jan. 11 and 8:28 a.m. Jan. 12. Nothing was reported missing.
    Three Palm Court residents reported someone broke into their cars while the vehicles were parked outside their residences between 4 p.m. Jan. 10 and 11:30 a.m. Jan. 11, police said. In all three instances, the thief smashed the driver’s side or passenger’s side window to gain entry.
    One victim reported the theft of two music compact discs worth a combined $10, and another victim told police someone stole a Magellan GPS unit, 500 compact discs, a radar detector and a cellphone and cord, worth a combined $5,600. The third victim said her car had been ransacked, but nothing was missing.
    A Princeton Pike resident told police someone stole two red money bags, containing an undisclosed amount of cash, from the back of his company truck while it was parked in his driveway at 4:15 p.m. Jan. 9.
    The victim told police his dog started to bark, and when he looked out the window, he saw the lower portion of someone’s legs on the back of his delivery truck. When he yelled, the thief got out of the truck and jumped into a waiting car and left the scene, police said.
    Someone stole a Magellan GPS unit, valued at $350, from a 2004 Dodge truck while it was parked on Reed Court between 4 p.m. Jan. 8 and 4 p.m. Jan. 9, police said. The thief smashed the driver’s side window and reached in to remove the GPS unit from the vehicle.
    A Plainsboro Township resident reported the theft of an Ipod, two projectors and a bag of cables, valued at $2,650, from the rear seat of his 1998 Honda Accord while it was parked at the Applebee’s restaurant on Brunswick Pike between 9 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. Jan. 7, police said.