John Peter Kiesewetter, 50, of Newtown, Pa., was charged with shoplifting taking groceries worth $36.39 from the ShopRite grocery store at the Mercer Mall at 4:31 p.m. on Jan. 9. He was released on a summons.
Someone smashed the driver’s side rear window with a rock on a car belonging to a Fountayne Lane resident between midnight and 7:20 a.m. on Jan. 6 while the car was parked outside its owner’s home. There were pry marks on the car’s trunk lid, but nothing was reported missing.
A Glenn Avenue resident discovered someone had used her Bank of America Visa card to buy a computer from the Office Depot store in Newville, Pa., for $647.09 on Jan. 5. The victim canceled the credit card.
A 12-year-old Trenton girl was charged with shoplifting an assortment of jewelry valued at $56 from J.C. Penney at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 4. She was released to her father’s custody.
A Brunswick Avenue resident was bitten in the buttocks by a small dog that charged out of its owner’s home while he was walking his dog on Mulberry Street at 2:55 p.m. on Jan. 3. He suffered a red mark on his buttocks and refused medical treatment.
Vladimir Dats, 50, of Florence, was charged with shoplifting 10 bottles of fragrance valued at $788 from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 2:35 p.m. on Jan. 3. He was released on a summons.
A Glenn Avenue resident reported the theft of a diamond ring valued at $5,000 from a dresser draw between 4 p.m. on Dec. 30 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 1. There were no signs of forced entry.
A 17-year-old Trenton girl was charged with shoplifting clothing worth $467.49 from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 3:13 p.m. on Jan. 2. She was released to her godmother’s custody.
Ricardo A. Radusa, 24, of Trenton, was charged with shoplifting underwear valued at $60 at J.C. Penney at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 6:22 p.m. on Jan. 1. He was released on a summons.
Daniel Lee Campbell, 18, of Trenton, was charged with shoplifting a jacket worth $179 from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 3:06 p.m. on Jan. 1. He was released on a summons.
Pawel Bernasiuk, 23, of Puritan Avenue, was charged with serving alcoholic beverages to a minor and Kamila Gromek, 19, of Colonial Lake Drive, was charged with violating a Lawrence Township ordinance for allowing consumption of alcohol on private property by under-aged persons at 6:10 a.m. on Jan. 1 after a New Year’s Eve party at Ms. Gromek’s Colonial Lake Drive residence.
Deyli Velasquez, 36, of Hamilton, was charged with shoplifting clothing and jewelry worth $278.38 from Sears at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 4:29 p.m. on Dec. 30. She was released on a summons.
Joe’s Crab Shack on Brunswick Pike was scammed out of $796 at 1:40 p.m. on Dec. 29 after a caller, who identified herself as a representative of the restaurant chain’s Human Resources Department, claimed that the money must be wired to a Texas address to prevent a lawsuit from being filed against the store.
A 90-year-old Lawrence resident was fleeced out of $10,400 between Dec. 20 at noon and Dec. 23 at 4 p.m. by a caller who told her to send the money to him in Ithaca, N.Y., because her grandson was in Mexico and was injured, and the money was needed to pay for his medical care. After she sent the money, she told the story to another family member, who contacted the grandson. He called his grandmother and said he was fine.
Someone broke the rear driver’s side window on a car belonging to a Chesterfield resident while the car was parked in the parking lot outside the T.J. Maxx store at the Mercer Mall between 2:30 p.m. and 2:35 p.m. Dec. 28, and stole the victim’s company-issued laptop computer and the carrying case for it, and a woman’s jacket, worth a combined $1,100.
A Princeton Township resident reported the theft of her wallet, which contained $200 in cash plus personal papers, from her pocketbook while she was shopping at ShopRite at the Mercer Mall between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 27.
A Woodmont Drive resident reported the theft of an assortment of sterling silver flatware from her home between Nov. 28 and Dec. 28. The flatware was valued at $3,440. There were no signs of forced entry.
