Police Investigating a Pair of Burglaries

Toms River police are investigating a pair of burglaries that happened in sometime between Wednesday and Friday.

A home on Third Bayway in the Money Island section had its front door forced open sometime within the last two days, Police Chief Michael Mastronardy said. A Hewlett Packard laptop and a 32-inch Samsung flat screen television were taken in that incident, he said. Officers Paul Burkhardt and Shan Ruiz are investigating.

At 6 a.m. Friday, an employee of the Delta Service Station at 281 Route 37 called police to report a burglary at the station. Officers Mathew Broderick and Jason Putkowski found that a suspect or suspects apparently entered an outside bathroom and broke through an inner wall to get into the station, Mastronardy said. More than $1,000 in cash was taken from a safe that was broken into, Mastronardy said.

Anyone with information in either burglary is asked to call Toms River police at 732-349-0150.