Police & Fire
By RICHARD K. REIN
December 20, 2024
Princeton, NJ – From the police blotter:Men – and Women -- in Black. On December 15 at about 5:50 p.m. the manager of a retail store on Hulfish Street reported that two males entered the store and stole an unknown amount of merchandise before fleeing the area in a vehicle. The manager was unable to ...
Plainsboro, NJ -- A 39-year-old Ewing resident, Andre Angus, has been charged in connection with multiple incidents of sexual contact with patients while he was employed at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Eamon Blanchard of the ...
Trenton, NJ — Police across the state are engaged in a month-long crackdown on drunk driving, many of those efforts fueled by grants from the NJ Department of Highway Traffic Safety.The state’s 2024 “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign has divided $732,400 among 130 law enforcement agencies to ...
Princeton, NJ – One Driveway, Two Cars, Two Suspects. A Hunt Drive resident contacted police shortly after 11 p.m. on December 8 to report that two males had unsuccessfully attempted to gain entry to two vehicles in the victim’s driveway on Hunt Drive. The suspects fled the area in a white ...
Princeton, NJ -- Do you ever wonder where those police sirens in the distance are headed? Chances are, they are headed toward a traffic incident. Every year the Princeton Police Department responds to more than 600 crashes on our municipal roads. While the Department reports its activities to the ...
Princeton, NJ – A week ago, crowds of young people lined up to gain entrance to Princeton’s downtown bars and restaurants. It was Thanksgiving Eve, also known to some as Blackout Wednesday. For lots of college students and recent graduates hoping to catch up with old high school and hometown ...
Princeton, NJ – Join us in keeping an eye out in future police blotter reports for driving while intoxicated (DWI) arrests made in the evening of Wednesday, November 27, and early in the morning on Thursday, November 28. That time period, of course, is Thanksgiving Eve, a time when lots of college ...
Princeton, NJ – Here’s a fact of life worth considering: Thieves tend to be lazy. If they want to steal a car, they begin with one that’s unlocked and has the key fob sitting in a cupholder. If they want to grab some valuables from a house, they go door to door until they find one ...
Princeton, NJ – Published stories circulating last week reported that a Princeton resident had been killed and another injured when they were struck by a car backing out of a parking spot in East Windsor. While East Windsor police identified the woman who died as Semra Ozkaya, 68, of Princeton, it ...
Princeton, NJ – Is there something in the water in Princeton these days? Or is that even water we’re talking about?Whatever, Princeton Police report five – count ‘em, five – arrests for driving while intoxicated in the most recent police blotter. Three of the arrests were made – not surprisingly – ...
Princeton, NJ – When was the last time you heard that a bank teller got robbed on a Sunday afternoon? When was the last time you heard that a bank was even open on a Sunday afternoon? When was the last time you heard that a bank robber snatched the money from the teller and then made their getaway ...
Princeton, NJ – At various times in recent years we have reported on spates of crime involving cars parked in driveways. Usually left unlocked they were easy targets. Maybe those targets have been hardened. This month we are reporting three incidents of not cars but houses being broken into. It’s ...
Princeton, NJ – We have heard multiple accounts of lewd behavior this past week, and we aren’t even talking about a certain Presidential election campaign. This week’s Princeton municipal police blotter included the report of a lewd incident on Vandeventer Avenue on August 13 at 3:27 p.m. The ...
Princeton, NJ – As faithful readers know, we sometimes do a double take at the police blotter reports and have to ask the question: Is there some sort of typographical error in this entry? That happened with the most recent report from the Princeton Police Department, which included this ...
Princeton, NJ – Who knew that a bank in Princeton is actually open on Sunday afternoons? We do now, after receiving a report from Princeton Police that on Sunday, July 28, the police responded to TD Bank at 883 State Road on the report of a panic alarm activation. Shortly afterward, a bank teller ...
Princeton, NJ – Theft by deception or its evil twin, theft of identity, is getting to be a commonplace entry in our reports from the Princeton Police blotter. Last month we had two reports: On June 21 a Great Road resident reported that someone had stolen two business checks from her mailbox ...
Princeton, NJ – Less than two years after he was sworn in by Princeton’s mayor and Council, and still short of his 49th birthday, Princeton Police Chief Jonathan Bucchere has submitted his resignation, effective at the end of the month – not coincidentally when he reaches his 25th year of service ...
Princeton, NJ – As a community, Princeton does far more than you might expect to welcome and to support immigrants coming into town. The municipality, local businesses, churches, social service agencies, and even the police department operate as a welcoming community. Immigrants living lawfully in ...
Princeton, NJ – The last we heard a report of a coyote sighting in Princeton was around 10 years ago, when some people reportedly mistook some coyotes for wolves and theorized that the town had brought in wolves to help cull the deer population – presumably as a cheaper way than hiring trappers, ...
Princeton, NJ – It was described as an “incident” by the Princeton Police Department – but it must have been one remarkable incident. Police report that on June 4 at around 4:21 p.m., they responded to a report of an “incident” on Moore Street. Following that incident, for which no further ...