Police Blotter: Death Threats, Heroin, Stolen Credit Cards and More

Police in East Windsor and Hightstown reported the following incidents this week.

May 3

• A resident of Princeton Arms Apartments South Building 1 told police someone entered his unlocked apartment between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. and stole $1,200 in cash, as well as jewelry and clothing worth a total of $4,100.
• Lourdes Etheridge, 52, of Windsor Commons Apartments was charged with shoplifting.

Police said they responded to Shop Rite at 12:30 p.m. for a report of a shoplifter in custody. Store employees told police they saw Etheridge checking out with meat packages whose labels had been replaced with those of less expensive items.

May 2

• Juan C. Lujan, 42, of Camden, was charged with obstructing justice, apprehension and driving while suspended.

Police said they stopped him on Route 33 at 7:27 p.m. for driving with a defective brake light. According to police, Lujan could not produce any identification and gave the officer a fake name and date of birth. Police said they discovered his true identity and found he was driving with a suspended driver’s license and had an outstanding Burlington Township Municipal Court warrant. He was turned over to Burlington Township police.

• The owner of Millennium Lawn Care told police someone stole a $1,000 landscaping trailer from the business’ Mercer Street parking lot between 8 a.m. May 1 and 7:30 a.m. May 2.

April 25/May 2

• Patrick Cius, 43, of Trenton, was charged with terroristic threats.

Police said someone reported an acquaintance had, via voicemail and text messages, made several threats to kill him. Police said they charged Cius after hearing the threats, with bail set at $1,000 with no option to post 10 percent for release. Cius surrendered himself to police May 2 and was released after a court appearance and pending further court action.

May 1

• John Izzi, 19, of West Chester, Pa. was charged with possession of fewer than 50 grams of marijuana. He also received a summons for talking on a cell phone while driving. 

Police said they stopped him at 7:26 p.m. on Dutch Neck Road for driving while talking on his cell phone and, once stopped, smelled raw marijuana inside the vehicle and saw loose marijuana on his lap. Police said they also found he had a marijuana cigarette.

April 30

• A woman reported the theft of her wallet while she was shopping at Walmart at 2 p.m.

The woman told police a black woman, about 30 years old, with dark black hair and a black and white shirt, had bumped into her and asked her a question about her purchases. The victim reportedly then went to the checkout and discovered her wallet was no longer in her purse. Once tshe came home, police said, she found someone had placed charges on her credit cards, one for $1,700 at Walmart and another for $900 at Target.

• Andrew Loesser, of Country Mill Drive, and Samantha Scholander, of Dennison Drive, both 21, were charged with possession of fewer than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police said they found the two sitting in front of a Dennison Drive residence and smoking marijuana at 12:51 a.m.

April 29

• Franklin Panjon-Guallpa, 23, of Abbington Drive, was charged with obstruction of justice and consumption of alcohol in public.

Police said they were conducting a foot patrol of Bolton Road near the Quad 3 basketball courts at 9:41 p.m. when an officer saw several people drinking beer on the court, which is against township ordinance. One of the people, Panjon-Guallpa, was also urinating in public, police reported.

When the officer identified himself, Panjon-Guallpa ran away despite orders to stop, according to police. Police said they caught him on Jamestown Road and took him into custody.

• Demi Minnucci, 19, of Hightstown, was charged with shoplifting.

Police said they responded to Walmart at 5:59 p.m. for a report of a shoplifter in custody. Store employees told police Minnucci had put a $49.88 radio and a $24.97 flatware set in her purse and left the store without paying.

• A Chatham Court resident told police someone poured an unknown liquid on her 2004 Cadillac while it was parked on the street overnight, between 11:30 p.m. April 28 and 6 a.m. April 29. Police said the liquid caused an estimated $1,000 in damage to the paint.
• Vasily Bobrovny, 61, of Fairless Hills, Pa., was charged with defiant trespassing and being an unlicensed driver and was also taken into custody on a bench warrant.

Police said they saw his silver Toyota parked in the private construction yard of the Twin Rivers Trust, which is on Twin Rivers Drive and clearly posted with a “No Trespassing” sign, at 7:23 a.m. Police said they also found he had an East Windsor Township Municipal Court bench warrant. He was later released after paying bail on the warrant and pending a court appearance.

April 26

• Armando Garduno-Cardenas, 24, of Abbington Drive, was charged with driving while intoxicated, driving while suspended, consumption of alcohol in a motor vehicle, reckless driving, careless driving, unsafe vehicle, failure to signal turn, hindering apprehension and obstructing justice.

Police said they stopped him in the parking lot of Twin Rivers Apartments on Abbington Drive at 2:44 a.m. after seeing him driving toward that road with flat tires and emitting sparks. Police said he smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot, watery eyes.

Garduno-Cardenas gave police a false Mexican’s drivers license with a name later determined to be false as well, and there were several open beer bottles in the vehicle, according to a police report. Police said once they determined his true identity, they found he had an outstanding East Windsor Township Municipal Court bench warrant. He was arrested after field sobriety tests and released after posting bail on the warrant.

May 1

• Jason Angel Flores-Enamorado, 25, of Princeton, was charged with driving while intoxicated, DWI within a school zone, reckless driving, careless driving, failure to maintain lane, failure to keep right and unlicensed driving.

Police said they stopped him at midnight on Church Street after seeing him drive in the oncoming lane of traffic on Stockton Street. Police said Flores-Enamorado smelled of alcohol and that they arrested him after he failed field sobriety tests. At headquarters, police said his blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.13 percent. He was released to a friend.

April 29

• Bradford Bachalis, 20, of Cornwall Drive, East Windsor, was charged with disorderly conduct, suspended driving, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle.

Police said they stopped him at 12:37 a.m. for driving with a suspended license and that he began acting “in a tumultuous manner.” Police’s K-9 unit searched the outside of the vehicle and indicated the presence of narcotics, and a search of the inside revealed two folded pieces of paper containing suspected heroin, according to a police report.

April 26

• Elon D. Epps-Daniels, 21, of South Main Street, was charged with shoplifting. Police said they arrested him at 7:27 p.m. after he went into the Hightstown Pharmacy on Main Street and took a package of over-the-counter medication.
• Jennifer Pecan, 39, of Burlington City, was charged with contempt of court on a $1,008 Hightstown Borough Municipal Court warrant. She was later released on bail.
• Reese Minnucci, 22, of Greeley Street, was charged with contempt of court on a $1,000 Hightstown Borough Municipal Court warrant. He was later released on bail.