Crime

Cars driven by Hedwig Kayden and Timothy Danzey, both of Somerset, in the K-Mart parking lot off Easton Avenue collided. Each driver blamed the other. §

Feb. 21 Christopher Randazza of Somerset was backing his pickup truck out of a parking space at Walgreen’s on Hamilton Street when it struck a parked car leased by Rosemary Montes of Edison.

Maria Delvillar of Perth Amboy was cited for careless driving after the bus she was driving struck a car driven by Ashley Robinson of Somerset. Robinson said she was stopped at Layne Road and Leupp Lane when Delvillar’s bus turned left onto Layne and struck her car. §

Collected snow from multiple storms last week was blamed for the collapse of two structures in the township, police said. On Feb. 13, a 100 x 75-foot portion of a roof at 65 Clyde Rd. collapsed due to the weight of collected snow, police said.

Feb. 14, 2014 A car driven by Russell Potts Jr. of Hillsborough was stopped in the left-turn lane on John F. Kennedy Boulevard at Easton Avenue when it was struck in the rear by a car driven by Lynnea Wesley-Dickson of Pine Island, NY. Wesley-Dickson said she could not stop in time because of the icy road.

A Franklin Middle School teacher has been arrested on charges of possession  and distribution of heroin, according to court records. The Franklin Reporter & Advocate is not naming the teacher because the arrest has not yet been publicly announced. Details of the arrest are included in Superior Court records reviewed by the FR&A.

A car stolen from a Parkside Street resident was found later the same day in New Brunswick, police said. The resident told police that he parked his black 2000 Honda Civic in the building’s north parking lot around 6 p.m. on Jan. 27.

Jan. 28 Damiano DiFlorio of Princeton was cited for careless driving after his car ran off the road on Route 27 and landed on its side in a ditch. DiFlorio told police that he was trying to pass a stopped bus on the right when his car’s tires caught the snow and he car left the road.

A car driven by Bruce Boyd of Franklin Park rear-ended one driven on Route 27 by Deborah Gouldie, also of Franklin Park. Boyd said Gouldie’s car moved forward at the Bunker Hill traffic light then stopped suddenly, and his car slid on the wet road. §

An 18-year-old North Brunswick woman remains in custody in the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, on a theft charge. Police said that Nicole  Hopkins was seen on surveillance film Jan. 23 pocketing $350 at a cashier’s station at the Stop & Shop on Route 27.