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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Cops charge alleged burglary ring men

South Brunswick detectives arrested two men Tuesday allegedly involved in as many as 90 incidents in two counties.

By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor
South Brunswick detectives arrested two men Tuesday allegedly involved in as many as 90 incidents in two counties.
   According to police, the suspects were connected to residential burglaries, car burglaries, a motor vehicle theft, and weapons possession.
   South Brunswick detectives executed arrest warrants early Tuesday morning and picked up Avery Medina, 20, of New Brunswick at a Franklin location and Jorge Camarilo, 22, of Piscataway at his residence, police said.
   Detectives were working a series of burglary investigations and developed information in early March about a group from the New Brunswick area that was traveling in a stolen vehicle committing crimes, according to a press release from the department.
   Detectives learned the suspects were traveling with stolen property believed connected to several South Brunswick crimes.
   South Brunswick detectives then teamed with Metuchen detectives after Metuchen police recovered a stolen car near a burglary scene in that community during the second week of March.
   The detectives recovered items in the stolen vehicle that were allegedly linked to car burglaries in South Brunswick, police said.
   South Brunswick detectives were able to identify two members of the group allegedly committing the crimes as Avery Medina and Jorge Camarilo.
   A third suspect, identified by police as Jihad Bibbs Jr., 18, of Franklin was identified this week and remains a fugitive, police said.
   In South Brunswick, Mr. Medina and Mr. Camarillo are charged with four counts of burglary and possession of stolen property.
   They are both lodged on $40,000 bail at the Middlesex County adult Correction Center in North Brunswick.
   In all, police said they believe the suspects may be connected to as many as 20 car burglaries and 70 residential burglaries over the past four months in Middlesex and Somerset County areas.
   South Brunswick Police worked with detectives from Franklin and Metuchen as well as New Brunswick Police, Piscataway Police and members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, according to the release.
   South Brunswick Chief of Police Raymond Hayducka credited the coordination with other agencies in bringing these suspects crime spree to an end.
   ”These arrests are the result of good detective work and excellent coordination,” he said in the release “The suspects believed by changing towns they could deter and delay their detection and apprehension – they could not have been more wrong.”
   Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Bibbs Jr is asked to call Detective Dennis Yuhasz or Detective Mike Pellino at 732-329-4000 ext. 7496.