Police responded to a report of a possible theft of jewelry from a South 7th Avenue address at 8 a.m. Feb. 27. They found no crime, but a 92-year-old disoriented female having difficulty breathing. She was taken to Somerset Medical Center.
Patrolman John Granahan checked the parking lot of the Marketplace on North Main Street and found the black-and-brown zipper wallet reported lost by a Bridgewater woman who had come to headquarters at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 28. In the wallet were her with her driver’s license, checkbook, three bank cards, numerous credit cards, medical cards, $80 in cash and other personal items.
At 1:21 p.m. Feb. 28 a resident called from out of town and said she thought she had left her stove on. Patrols checked the South 8th Avenue address and found she had not.
Police responded to a call about an unresponsive male at a South 11th Avenue address at 10:14 a.m. Feb. 29. A 57-year-old man was pronounced dead by Somerset Mobile Intensive Care Unit.
A South 8th Avenue woman came to headquarters at 3:39 p.m. Feb. 29 and said her vehicle had been hit in the overnight hours. Police recorded a hit-and-run.
A North 10th Avenue woman called police at 6:56 p.m. Feb. 29 to say her dog had brought home a package with brownish substance inside it. Patrols responded, did not know what the substance was and disposed of it.
At 12:42 p.m. March 1 a Pennsylvania dealer tag was reported taken from the Adesa Auto Auction property. Police entered the tag number in the national crime computer.
At 1:08 p.m. March 1, police recorded a burglary and theft of $330 worth of Rubbermaid bins filled with household items from the rear of the garage of the North 9th Avenue property. The investigation is to continue.
A caller reported juveniles were playing baseball in front of the business on South Main Street at 3:11 p.m. March 1. They were gone by the time police arrived.
A caller reported a $495 theft from a burglarized New York vehicle on North Main Street at 3:53 p.m. March 1.
A man came to headquarters at 5:25 p.m. March 1 to report a theft of a New Jersey dealer tag. It was entered in the national crime registry.
A woman came to headquarters at 9:19 p.m. March 1 to report that while she was in Wal-mart her purse was taken. In it were $25 in cash, two debit cards, credit cards, and U.S. and United Kingdom driver’s licenses. The investigation continues.
Michael Simmons of Philadelphia arrived at headquarters at noon March 2 to report he bought a white Lancer in December 2009 and its been lost in inventory since. The vehicle appeared to have been checked out in August 2010, police said.
Manville High School Vice Principal Stephen Venuto signed a complaint at 12:49 p.m. March 2 against a Brooks Boulevard woman whose daughter has been absent from school 12 days since September.
A Whalen Street woman came to the police station at 1:27 p.m. March 2 to report fraudulent use of her bank account by someone in Florida. The bank’s fraud unit was to handle the investigation.
Patrolman John Granahan helped State Police find two people taken into custody in the Wal-mart parking lot at 1:47 p.m. March 2. Animal control was called to take possession of a dog.
Police responded to a call from Wal-mart security at 4:12 p.m. March 2 and arrested and charged Katherine M. Barker, 23, of a South Main Street apartment with taking $79.47 worth of goods. She was released.
An estimated $75 worth of damage was reported to the basketball backboard on South 10th Avenue during the daytime of March 2.
A Schmidt Street caller reported at 1 p.m. March 3 that both his right side tires on his black 2009 Mercedes Benz went flat after he ran over a loose water cap on South Main Street at South Greasheimer.
A Newark Avenue woman called three times between 2:47 and 3:14 p.m. to say items were taken from her three vehicles: a silver Ford, a 2001 black Jeep and a 2010 Nissan. Items she reported missing were $3 in change, a flashlight, iPod cord, and a Garmin GPS, worth $100. Police believe it was related to the Feb. 25 spree of two men have been charged with breaking into and taking items from nine vehicles, and probably many more.
A woman called police March 3 and said squatters were sleeping in her residence at South 4th Avenue, which had been abandoned since the flood. She asked that patrols check it at night.
A Bridgewater woman tried to reclaim $70 she said she prepaid to bowl, but never did. An argument at the alley ensued and she called police at 12:46 a.m. March 4. They told her it was a civil issue.
A North 7th Avenue woman reported at 10 a.m. March 4 that four tires on her vehicle, registered in Michigan, were slashed overnight.
A Wal-mart employee said at 2:39 p.m. March 4 that three males left the store with unpaid merchandise in a vehicle whose tag number he gave police. Two knives worth $128 were reported taken. An investigation will continue.
A West Camplain Road woman told police at 6:20 p.m. March 4 that an old man driving a blue van had offered her money in return for sexual favors. She wanted it on the record.
At 8:53 p.m. March 4 a caller reported the theft of $65 from his South Reading Street residence. He suspected a woman whom he had reported an hour earlier as an unwanted guest, and police called a taxi to take the woman away.
Police took in a 20-inch black mountain bike from the VanVeghten bridge at 9 p.m. March 4.
The Stop and Go store reported at 5:55 a.m. March 4 that it was missing two dozen rolls and six bagels that were likely taken between 3:30 and 5 a.m. that morning.

