WEST WINDSOR POLICE BLOTTER: June 30

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  • Someone pushed over a free-standing basketball hoop, which damaged a mailbox on its way to the ground. The incident occurred between June 13 and June 14, and was reported on June 14 at 6:21 p.m. 
  • A 21-year-old Lawrence Township resident reported the theft of her wallet containing personal papers and some cash while it was hanging on a hook toward the rear of the break room at a store in the Windsor Greens shopping center on June 14. 
  • Walter Harris Jr., 56, of Hamilton Township, was charged with shoplifting for allegedly taking an assortment of items, including tractor batteries, carburetor cleaner and a fishing lure, worth a combined $312.18, from Walmart. The incident was reported at 1:02 p.m. June 16. 
  • Two shoplifters escaped with a Porter-Cable 20V combo kit, valued at $299.99, from Lowe’s at The Square at West Windsor shopping center at 3:04 p.m. June 16. The two men put the item in a shopping cart and wandered around the store, before making their way to the garden center. One of the men left from the garden center, and the second man left a few minutes later with the tool kit. 
  • A man and a woman attempted to return a vacuum cleaner, which they had just taken off the shelf, for a merchandise credit card at Lowe’s at The Square at West Windsor shopping center on June 26. The woman was given a merchandise credit card and left the store. The store canceled the card before it could be used. 
  • A 62-year-old Lawrenceville man nearly became the victim of an identity theft when someone tried to use his information to open credit cards at Target and Toys ‘R Us on June 7. The applications were rejected. The incident was reported at 2:45 p.m. June 15. 
  • A 54-year-old Lawrenceville woman reported the loss of a 1.4-karat diamond from her engagement ring while she was shopping at Target on June 13. The ring snagged on one of the holes in the side of a plastic shopping cart and fell out of the ring as she was unloading items from the cart at the cashier station. 
  • An assortment of party goods was taken by two shoplifters who had a young child with them at the Party City store on Nassau Park Boulevard at 10:57 a.m. June 22. They left the store and went into the parking lot, where they fled the area in a car. 

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