Crime & Safety

Police: Hightstown Teen Robbed of Cell Phone, Pot with Fake Handgun

The robbery with an imitation handgun involved six local teenagers in East Windsor.

East Windsor Police arrested five Hightstown residents and one resident of Twin Rivers on Sunday night.

According to police, a juvenile entered into a car occupied by six individuals as he was leaving a house party on Windsor-Perrineville Road in East Windsor. The juvenile entered the car to allegedly sell marijuana to one of the people within the car, police said. 

The victim told police that once he entered the car he was grabbed by the neck from behind by a juvenile suspect while another juvenile pointed a handgun at him and robbed him of his cell phone and the marijuana. A police investigation revealed that an imitation handgun was used. 

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All six of the individuals were arrested by police, including the adult driver of the car Darrius Wojtowicz.  Wojtowicz, 19, of Hightstown, was charged with robbery, terroristic threats, weapons offenses, and criminal restraint, police said. He was remanded to Mercer County Jail in default of $100,000 bail. The five juveniles, two fifteen-year-olds, and three 17-year-olds, were also charged with robbery, terroristic threats, weapons offenses, and criminal restraint. They were detained in the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center pending court action. 


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