Police Log: Dec. 8 – Dec. 13, 2016

Dec. 8

• Someone stole a Goodyear tire valued at $300 from a People’s Line Road home.
• A 2006 Honda Accord parked off Easton Avenue was burglarized.
• Four men “dined and dashed” at the Somerset Diner, Easton Avenue. The men skipped on a $42 tab.
• A Reler Lane resident told police that early in the morning, she heard someone jiggling the doorknob on her front door. She said that she and her boyfriend investigated, and found the door ajar. Police said the keys to a Jeep had been stolen.
• Edward Sarchisian of Hillsborough was driving down Canal Road when a deer jumped in front of his car, he told police. He said he couldn’t avoid hitting it.
• Mayren Roman-Suarez of Rockford, Ill. was cited for failure to exhibit driving credentials after her car was involved in an accident on Easton Avenue with one driven by Alan Jones of Somerset. Roman-Suarez said she did not see Jones’ car on Easton as she was making a left turn from Irvington Avenue, and her car hit his.
• Amit Golchha of Somerset was cited for careless driving after his car rear-ended one driven on Olcott Street by Steven Callaghan of Franklin Park. Callaghan said he was turning left onto Amwell when he yielded to a school bus that was turning onto Amwell from Charles Street. His car was then rear-ended by Golchha’s. Golchha said the car ahead of his stopped suddenly, leaving him no time to avoid the accident.
• Cars driven on Hamilton Street by Shontaya Wilson of New Brunswick and Tushar Gupta of Somerset collided when Gupta made a left turn out of a driveway. Gupta said he did not see Wilson’s car.
• Shirley Knopf of Somerset was driving in her complexes’ parking lot when, she said, the car suddenly accelerated. She said she could not stop and lost control of the car. The car ran off the road, struck a light post and then struck a parked car owned by Debra Johnson of Somerset.
• Rebecca Sanders of Belle Mead was pulling into traffic on Hamilton Street when her car sideswiped one driven by Arif Nawaz of North Brunswick. Sanders said she did not see Narwaz’s car.
• Miledy Rodriguez of New Brunswick was driving on Franklin Boulevard when she decided to change lanes. That’s when her car struck one driven in the next lane by Disiree Jones of New Brunswick.
• Griselda Clara-Ortiz of Lawrence Township was cited for careless driving and driving without a license after her car rear-ended one driven by Thomas McCann of Kendal Park. Clara-Ortiz said she was driving without a license because of a family emergency. She said she did not see McCann’s car before hitting it.

Dec. 9

• An Ari Drive homeowner surprised two men who were attempting to break into his home. The men ran off, police said.
• A Canterbury Circle resident reported that someone vandalized her 2013 Hyundai Sonata while it was parked at her house.
• Sometime between Dec. 4 and Dec. 9, someone stole a package valued at $70 from the porch of a Chatsworth Drive home.
• A car driven by Robert Tronolone of Flemington was crossing the intersection of New Brunswick Road and Elizabeth Avenue, with the green light, when a car driven by Adrienne Smith of North Plainfield turned in front of his and the two collided.

Dec.10