LAWRENCE: Police blotter

A Yardley, Pa. resident reported the theft of her handbag and some prescription pills in the handbag, which she had left on the front seat of her car, at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 2 after she made an emergency stop on Princeton Pike.
She left the car door open, and a woman who was walking past the car on Princeton Pike reached in and grabbed the handbag. The thief dropped the handbag on the sidewalk as she ran away on Princeton Pike toward Darrah Lane, before getting into a car that sped off.
Anthony Miller, 56, of Trenton, was charged with defiant trespass, obstruction of the administration of law and justice and with violating a Lawrence Township ordinance for aggressive panhandling after he was observed panhandling at the Halo Farm store on Spruce Street at 8:19 p.m. Sept. 4.
A 20-year-old Trenton woman reported the theft of her Apple iPhone, valued at $400, at the Quaker Bridge Mall between 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sept. 5 while she was sitting in the center court. When she used the app to locate her cellphone, it turned up in the area of Capital Plaza on Spruce Street. It was not recovered.
Naquan Sawyer, 27, of Trenton, was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana at 8:13 p.m. Sept. 5 after a police officer on patrol observed a suspicious person in the area of the Sleep-E-Hollow Motel on Brunswick Pike. He had some outstanding warrants and the marijuana was discovered on his person after his arrest on the warrants.
Nyasia Elam, 18, of Baldwin, N.Y., was charged with exhibiting a false document after she presented a fake Connecticut driver’s license at Joe Canal’s liquor store at the Mercer Mall at 8:18 p.m. Sept. 5.
A Short Johnson Avenue resident reported that someone broke the vent window on the driver’s side and the passenger’s side windows on his 1994 Ford pickup truck while it was parked outside his home between 9:30 p.m. Sept. 5 and 8:30 a.m. Sept. 6.
A burglar stole a 32-inch television set from a Lawn Park Avenue home between 2:30 p.m. Sept. 5 and 1 p.m. Sept. 6. Entry was made through a first-floor window.
Heather Homan, 34, of Jamesburg, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance (heroin) and possession of a hypodermic needle after the car in which she was riding was stopped on the Trenton Freeway at 1:37 p.m. Sept. 6. Bail was set at $11,000 with a 10-percent option.
A shoplifter took a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, valued at a combined $115, from J.C. Penney at 1:31 p.m. Sept. 8.
A Range Rover sport utility vehicle, valued at $60,000, that had been reported stolen from a Newtown, Pa., resident, was recovered on Lawrence Station Road at 11:13 p.m. Sept. 8. Callers reported that the Range Rover had been parked on Lawrence Station Road for several hours, with its flashers on.