Police Blotter: Reports of Stolen Jewelry and a Truck, and Charges for Heroin and Other Narcotics

Police reported the following incidents of the course of the last week.

East Windsor

April 26

• Chanpeng Munpanthavong, 41, of Springfield, was charged with receiving stolen property and unsafe lane change.

Police said they stopped him at 1:05 a.m. on Route 130 after checking the license plate on the 1999 Toyota he was driving and learning the vehicle had been reported stolen in Fairfax, Va.

April 25

• A Twin Rivers Drive resident told police someone entered his unlocked vehicle while it was parked near his residence between 5:30 p.m. April 24 and 9:30 a.m. April 25 and stole a wallet containing personal papers.

April 23

• A Keats Court resident told police someone entered their residence between 5 and 10:50 p.m. and stole $150 in cash and a safe containing a $3,000 diamond necklace, a $500 ruby necklace and $20,000 in other assorted jewelry.

April 22

• Isaiah Ledgister, 20; Philip Peters, 23; and Jordan De La Cruz, 18—all of Bronx, N.Y.—were charged with forgery, conspiracy and theft.

Police said they responded to the Windsor Crossing Shopping Center at 6:55 p.m. for a report of a customer at the Muscle Maker Grill who had paid with a counterfeit $100 bill. Police said they received a report of the customer and his vehicle and stopped them on Hickory Corner Road.

Police said they found five people in the vehicle, as well as three more counterfeit $100 bills. The three men listed above were taken into custody and sent to the Mercer County Detention Center in lieu of $10,000 bail and with the option to post 10 percent for release.  

• Thomas G. Glick, 23, of Wynbrook West Apartments, was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to keep right, reckless driving and careless driving.

Police said they stopped him at 3:19 a.m. on Oak Creek Road after seeing him turn onto that road after driving erratically on Hickory Corner Road. Police said he had slow, uncoordinated had movements and bloodshot, watery eyes and smelled of alcohol and that they arrested him after field sobriety tests.

April 21

A Princeton Arms North 2 Apartments resident told police someone took one UPS package containing a $100 cell phone and another package with a $110 watch from where they had been left near their front door between 2:20 and 5:30 p.m.

April 20

• A 17-year-old Morrison Avenue boy, a 16-year-old Morrison Avenue boy, a 13-year-old Ithaca Place boy and a 15-year-old Broad Street boy were all charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute in school zone, possession of fewer than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
• The 17-year-old Morrison Avenue boy, who was the driver, was also charged with careless driving, possession of drugs in motor vehicle and a provisional drivers license violation.

Police said they stopped the car the boys were in at 1:16 p.m. in the parking lot of the Twin Rivers Mall after seeing the silver Subaru driving at a high rate of speed. Police said they recognized the vehicle from earlier complaints of the driver soliciting people to purchase marijuana, and that a search revealed three bags of marijuana in the car. Four teenage occupants were arrested, charged and turned over to their parents.

April 17

• Jorge T. Torres, 39, of The Orchard apartments, was charged with assault.

Police said they responded to the parking lot of Windsor Castle Apartments for a report of a fight in progress and arrived to find the victim lying on the ground, apparently unconscious, while Torres kicked him in the head. Police said they arrested Torres and spoke with a second victim, who was sitting on the porch with facial injuries. The second victim allegedly told police he and the first victim had gotten into a confrontation when Torres came to his aid and attacked the first victim, who police said was transported to Capital Health Regional Hospital for treatment of the injuries he received from being kicked in the head. 

April 9

• Craig Goldfond, 27, of Pine Lane, was charged with possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a hypodermic needle and failure to wear seatbelt.
• Nicole J. Nelson, 23, of South Main Street, was charged with possession of prescription drugs, driving while suspended and possession of drugs in a motor vehicle.

Police said they saw a grey Honda driving east on Old Trenton Road near Windsor Mill Condominiums at about 11:58 p.m. and noticed the front seat passenger was not wearing his seatbelt. Police said they stopped the vehicle as it turned into the Windsor Mill parking lot, and that, Goldfond, the passenger, quickly got out of the vehicle and walked away. Police said they stopped him and found he had a metal spoon with a cotton swab in it, consistent with heroin use.

Police said they also found a hypodermic needle and two bags of heroin during their investigation. The driver, Nelson, had prescription medication that was not prescribed to her, police said.

Hightstown

April 23

• Police said someone cut the lock of a gate on a Tornquist Garage on Mercer Street between 10:45 p.m. April 23 and 8:40 a.m. April 24 and took a 2006 Freightliner flatbed truck valued at $85,000.

The red truck has the business name, address and phone number on the driver and passenger-side doors. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the vehicle is asked to contact police at 609-448-1234.

• Carmelo Rosa, 56, of Gardenview Terrace, East Windsor, was charged with possession of fewer than 50 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while intoxicated, DWI within a school zone, possession of narcotics in a motor vehicle, having an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle, reckless driving, careless driving and speeding. 

Police said they stopped him at 12:08 a.m. on North Main Street for driving 46 mph in a 25-mph zone. Police said they smelled alcohol and that Rosa failed field sobriety tests. In the vehicle, police said they found an open bottle of vodka and a burnt marijuana cigarette. At police headquarters, police said Rosa had a blood-alcohol level of 0.06 percent. He was released to a friend.

April 21

• Police received custody of Antonio Rosario, 21, of Bolton Road, East Windsor, from New Jersey State Police, who took him into custody on a $500 Hightstown Municipal Court warrant.

Police said he was released on bail and given a new court date.

This article was updated Friday at 7:46 p.m. to specify who was the driver in the April 20 incident in East Windsor.