LAWRENCE: Police blotter

   Someone smashed the front passenger’s side window on a 1996 Audi belonging to a Levittown, Pa., resident while it was parked in a parking lot on Princess Road between noon July 14 and 8 a.m. July 16. Nothing was reported missing from the car. Damage was estimated at $200.
   A woman shoplifter escaped with a $79.99 bicycle from the Toys R Us store on Brunswick Pike at 5:32 p.m. July 13. A store employee saw her pushing a store cart with the bicycle in it and leaving the store without paying for it. He was distracted by two women before he could stop the shoplifter.
   A ShopRite employee thwarted a potential shoplifter who had placed a window air conditioning unit, valued at $199.99, in his shopping cart at the grocery store at the Mercer Mall at 1:50 p.m. July12. The would-be shoplifter left the store without paying for it, but abandoned the cart and the air conditioner when he realized he was being watched by the employee.
   A 17-year-old Lawrence boy was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute after he was stopped for a motor vehicle violation on O’Neil Court at 7:12 p.m. July 12. He had a marijuana cigarette and 21 small baggies containing marijuana in his car.
   Guiping Ji, 48, of Flushing, N.Y., was charged with prostitution at 2:45 p.m. July 12 after offering to exchange sex for money with an undercover police officer at the Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge on Brunswick Pike, after police responded to a newspaper advertisement. She was later released.
   A thief stole a Samsung brand cellphone, valued at $600, from the AT&T Wireless store on Princeton Avenue July 11 between 12:45 p.m. and 12:55 p.m. A man asked to see the cellphone, and the clerk handed it to him. To distract the clerk, he asked her to call another AT&T store to find it in another color. While she was looking it up on the computer, he reached over, picked up the phone and fled the store.
   Kevin E. White, 34, of Trenton, was charged with theft by deception and receiving stolen property after he attempted to return clothing, worth $254, for store credit at J.C. Penney at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 8:41 p.m. July 9. An accomplice, who was not apprehended, was observed taking the clothing and handing it over to him outside the store. He was held on $5,000 bail because of outstanding warrants.