Crime

July 18 Two bottles of Snapple, a toothbrush and a package of Tyson Wings, valued at $10.31, were stolen from Rite Aid Pharmacy on Hamilton Street. A store employee told police that three women were seen placing the items in a white purse. The women were not apprehended.

A township doctor’s medical license has been revoked over charges that he prescribed “narcotic painkillers that put his patients at risk of addiction, and of continuing to prescribe increasing dosages to patients despite clear evidence that they were abusing drugs,” according to a release from the state Attorney General’s Office. Dr. Ali G. Mansour, who has an office on DeMott Lane, …

Township police are investigating the armed robbery of a cab driver on Hempstead Drive. Police Sgt. Philip Rizzo said that just after midnight on July 18, police received a call from a cabby who said he’d been robbed.

More than two dozen township 7th to 10th graders participated this week in the Police Department’s Youth Academy. The academy, now in its 4th year, gives youth an opportunity to experience was police cadets go through in the academy, said township Det. Kevin Fitzharris, the youth academy’s coordinator.

A 74-year-old Somerset man was killed early July 14 when his car crashed into a tree on Route 518, police said. Police said Augustus Browne was traveling west on Rt. 518 when his car crossed the center line, left the road and hit a tree head-on.

July 5 Derrick Anderson of Yardville was cited for careless driving after his car ran off Mettlars Road and hit a utility pole. Anderson told police that all he remembered was taking his eyes off the road to scratch his leg, and all of a sudden, his car was heading off the road. The car flipped over twice after the …

The Good Fortune Supermarket on Route 27 remained closed July 8 after an electrical cord coming in contact with a lobster tank sparked an early morning fire. When township Officer Patrick Clyne responded to a fire alarm call at the supermarket at about 4:46 a.m., he saw heavy smoke coming through the store’s front doors, he reported.

July 2 Thomas A. Romano of Scotch Plains told police that his car struck a parked car owned by Hector Perez of Plainfield as Romano was backing out of a parking spot in a Memorial Drive lot.

A Somerset veterinary clinic helped police capture two people now charged with the theft of a township resident’s pet dog, as well as jewelry and electronics. Charly J. Garcia, 20, and Michele Andrade, 19, both of New Brunswick, face multiple charges for the alleged theft of “Pepper,” a Schnauzer/Poodle mix, from her Hunt Road home on June 24, according to a press …

Update: Police on June 27 said that Pepper, the Schnauzer/Poodle mix who was stolen June 24 from a Hunt Road home, has been recovered and returned to her family.