By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The last suspect of three men who committed a string of car burglaries has been apprehended and charged with multiple offenses, according to the South Brunswick Township Police Department.
Jarred Robinson, 23, of Franklin Township, was charged with burglary, theft, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and tampering with evidence, police said. A citizen who had read a Nixle alert last week that Mr. Robinson was wanted for the car burglaries tipped off police.
The caller reported that Mr. Robinson was walking in the Society Hill development off Route 27 in Franklin Township, police said. Mr. Robinson was arrested without incident and placed in the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center on $30,000 bail.
Two other men — 21-year-old Jermaine Robinson Jr. of New Brunswick and 19-year-old Jerome Thomas of Somerset — were arrested last month. They are facing numerous charges of burglary and theft for breaking into 48 cars in South Brunswick, Franklin and North Brunswick townships.
Detectives learned that Jarred Robinson was aware of the Nixle alert that led to his arrest, and he was upset with it because he claimed that it inaccurately portrayed that he was working with the two men.
Mr. Robinson admitted to the crimes, but not the partnership with Jermaine Robinson Jr. and Jerome Thomas, police said. He said the crimes were his own, and the other two men were committing their own crimes.
Mr. Robinson was linked to the car burglaries after police recovered a stolen van on Springdale Road on Sept. 21. The van, which belonged to an adult day care center in North Brunswick Township, had been stolen by Mr. Robinson more than 12 times over the past month, police said.
Mr. Robinson previously worked for the adult day care center and kept the van keys, police said. He drove the van around neighborhoods and entered cars.
Police interrupted Mr. Robinson in the process of breaking into cars in the Royal Oaks apartment complex on Sept. 24. He was connected to several car burglaries in the apartment complex after he ran from police and dropped his wallet with his driver’s license in it.
