Police blotter report, April 17th issue
A caller was worried that a man in blue jeans, work boots and heavy flannel shirt man was walking on the sidewalk taking pictures of the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School at 8:29 a.m. April 8. Police found no problem, just a custodian walking around the school with a cell phone.
• Police investigated the possibility that poison might have killed a dog after they responded to a call on South 11th Avenue at 6:39 a.m. April 9. Animal control and detectives were notified. The investigation showed the dog died of natural causes, they said, with nothing suspicious.
• Three dead birds in a row on North 3rd Avenue were reported at 7:43 a.m. April 9. Police said the grey-brown birds were hit by a vehicle in the middle of the road. DPW was contacted to remove the birds.
• County communications reported a commercial burglar alarm at Skydell Contracting on North Weiss St. at 11:29 p.m. April 10. Patrols found Carlos Diaz, 24, of Manville, inside the business, and he was later charged with third-degree burglary. He was taken to Somerset Medical Center with a cut on his face, probably from entering through a window that he broke, and turned over to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department.
• A Boesel Avenue caller at 12:24 p.m. April 12 reported the theft of a wooden chair valued at $225 taken during the previous night.
• Tyler Paulson, 25, of Newville, Pa., was charged with disorderly conduct, hindering apprehension and obstruction of administration of the law on South Main Street near Washington Avenue at 10:40 p.m. April 12. He was reported wanted on Pennsylvania warrant.
• Police could not find a brown-haired female with glasses holding a pink-shirted youngster slumped over her shoulder, as reported at 10:43 p.m. April 12. The woman was reportedly crying and walking around the parking lot of the Reading Cinema asking people for money to get her daughter back to South Jersey. The manager of the theater said he didn’t see the woman, nor was it reported to him.

