MANVILLE: Police blotter, week of March 11-17

   Manville Postmistress Shelia Owens reported finding a wallet, with a Peru alien card, in the mail at 11:46 a.m. March 11. Patrol officers responded and filed a property report.
   A Hillsborough man came into headquarters at 1:17 p.m. March 11 to report criminal mischief to his vehicle — the rear passenger side tire had been slashed two days earlier between 10 and 11 a.m. Estimated damage: $200.
   Manville High School Principal Dr. James Brunn reported skateboarders in the high school parking lot at 3:47 p.m. March 11. Patrols responded and arrested and charged Joseph Berger 4th, 23, of Lebanon with violation of the borough disorderly conduct ordinance. He was released after booking.
   A North 8th Avenue woman who gave a $70 check to two men soliciting magazine sales thought better and canceled the check March 14. She reported the incident for the record at about 2 p.m.
   A representative of Auto Gallery in Perth Amboy came into headquarters at 6:08 p.m. March 14 to report a dealer plate was taken from a vehicle parked in the cinema parking lot on North Main Street between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. that day.
   A West Camplain Road woman reported March 14 that all four tires on her vehicle had been cut between 9 p.m. March 13 and 7:30 a.m. the next morning. Estimated value of damage was $150.
   Walgreen’s security officer reports an activated alarm at the South Main Street store at 3:19 a.m. Friday. Patrols found a rear window smashed — the fourth similar occurrence in the last year. Sgt. Ronald Gazaway responded.
   At 5 p.m. Friday, a South 17th Avenue man reported a possible burglary at his mother’s residence. Police found a forced entry to a rear window sometime in the previous two weeks, with an estimated $4,850 in coins and jewelry taken.
   A man came into headquarters at 7:27 p.m. Friday to say he had lost his black leather wallet, with identification and about $60 in it, sometime in the previous two hours on South Main Street. He wanted it on the record.
   A woman came to headquarters at 12:27 p.m. Saturday to say that scrap metal worth $1,300 had been taken from her Duke’s Parkway yard between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. the previous day.
   A caller at 11:04 p.m. Saturday said that someone had busted a window on the first floor of the building on Wyoming Place. Its value was estimated at $100. Patrols checked but found nothing amiss.
   A Brooks Boulevard woman came to headquarters at 12:15 p.m. Sunday with a license plate she had found in the post office lot. The plate’s owner, a Hillsborough woman, was contacted.
   A Bedminster woman came to headquarters at 12:15 p.m. Sunday to report that her jacket and iPhone had been taken while she was at Arby’s around 9:30 the previous night.