POLICE BLOTTER: Week of March 8

   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   A caller reported a $495 theft from a burglarized New York vehicle on North Main Street at 3:53 p.m. March 1.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   An estimated $75 worth of damage was reported to the basketball backboard on South 10th Avenue during the daytime of March 2.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   A North 7th Avenue woman reported at 10 a.m. March 4 that four tires on her vehicle, registered in Michigan, were slashed overnight.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   Police took in a 20-inch black mountain bike from the VanVeghten bridge at 9 p.m. March 4.

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   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.