Multi-jurisdictional Vehicle Burglaries and Thefts Being Investigated
Over the past few months, numerous groups of suspects have been
committing multiple vehicle burglaries and thefts throughout the State of New
Jersey. Within Riverside Township, we have had fourteen vehicles
illegally entered with property stolen in six of those cases along with two
arrests made. The one common factor in these crimes is that the
vehicle doors were not locked. Please remember to lock your vehicle
(and your residence) at all times. Do not leave items of value in your
car, especially in plain view. While these crimes tend to take place
primarily between the hours of 2 am and 5 am it is best to lock your doors
whenever you are away from your vehicle.
Our
Riverside Township Detectives are actively investigating these cases and
working with multiple jurisdictions in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to identify
and charge the remaining suspects. Our patrol officers will continue
to proactively patrol the streets of Riverside Township, enforce traffic
violations, investigate potential criminal activity and arrest those offenders.
We
greatly appreciate our residents’ support in our efforts to keep our town safe
and free of these crimes. If you believe, you are witnessing
criminal activity requiring immediate police response, dial 911 immediately. If
you observe suspicious activity, report it right away. Our
non-emergency line is 856-461-3434. Try to provide our dispatchers with
essential information such as clothing descriptions and direction of
travel. Do not confront these suspects because we have
found through our investigations, that many of these suspects may be armed. If
you can safely observe, stay on the phone with the dispatcher or leave a
call back number. You may also ask to remain anonymous.
If anyone has any information regarding these or other cases of vehicle burglaries and theft, you can contact the Riverside Township Police Detective Bureau at 856-461-8820 x 114 or email us at detectives@riversidepolicenj.org
Anyone with information (not for crimes in progress) who wishes to remain anonymous may send a tip by texting to 847411 (tip411) with riversidepd in the message field along with the tip. Tip411 messages are anonymous. Anonymous web tips can also be submitted right from the Tip 411 Link on the Riverside Township Police Department’s Facebook page or website www.riversidepolicenj.org/tip-411/
