Man Arrested in Car Burglary Attempt

 Riverside Township Police

Riverside, NJ - Sunday morning, at approximately 6:30 am, the Riverside Township Police were dispatched out to the 800 block of Bridgeboro St for the report of a male trespassing inside of a parked vehicle.  The owner of the vehicle found the suspect asleep inside the car and the glove box open.  The owner called police as the suspect fled from the location.  After obtaining a description and checking the area, the officers located Manuel E. Semidey, 46 years, of Camden, NJ.  As a result of the investigation, he was placed under arrest and charged with Burglary and Criminal Attempt of Theft.  While in custody, Semidey was also charged with the theft of a bicycle from a case on January 9th of this year.  Riverside Detectives identified him as the suspect who walked onto a property along the 100 block of Lippincott Avenue and rode off with a bike belonging to a resident.   

Riverside Township is one of many towns throughout the state of New Jersey dealing with a multitude of thefts from unlocked motor vehicles.  Our officers have arrested and charged 5 suspects within the past year for motor vehicle burglaries and our detectives are still working on several other open cases.  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 are asking all of our residents to continue to assist us with making sure that you lock your vehicles when parked and secure the doors/windows of your homes.  

We greatly appreciate our residents’ support in our efforts to keep our town safe and free of these crimes.  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.  If you believe you are witnessing criminal activity that requires an immediate police response, dial 911 immediately.  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. 

Anyone with information 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 Police Department’s Facebook page or website www.riversidepolicenj.org/tip-411/