Police Blotter: Equipment Theft at Sports Fields

Police reports this week as released by Chief Michael Mastronardy:

• Toms River Officer Scott Duncan is investigating the theft of four vehicle batteries and four extension cords from vehicles parked at the Saint Joseph’s sports complex on Whitty Road. Unknown subjects entered the secure, fenced compound where vehicles are stored by cutting a chain-link fence. They then removed the batteries from two buses that were parked there. The theft occurred sometime after 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday morning.  

• Officer Kevin O’Melia is investigating the attempted theft of a Dyson Vacuum cleaner valued at $695 from store on Route 37 on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Loss prevention officers for Kohl’s observed a 35 year-old white male with glasses wearing blue jeans, a dark blue hooded sweatshirt and a dark baseball cap with yellow writing. Police said he walked out of the store with the vacuum in a shopping cart. When the suspect was stopped by security he ran away through the parking lot toward the Garden State Parkway without the vacuum.

Police are urging anyone with further information on these incidents to call police headquarters at 732-349-0150.