Police Charge Serial Burglary Suspect In Gloucester Township

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Police charged a Camden man with burglary and theft charges after they say he broke into five cars in Gloucester Township recently, stealing two of them.

Officers staked out a local hotel room to find the suspect, 25-year-old Tyree Taylor, on Thursday according to a news release. They charged Taylor with five counts of burglary to a motor vehicle, three counts of theft from a vehicle, two counts of theft of a vehicle, and one count each of burglary of a residence, resisting arrest by fight, and obstruction of justice.

Police were investigating a burglary and vehicle theft on La Costa Drive in the Valleybrook Townhome development that morning. The resident said she woke up to find her home ransacked, and her car gone. Officers believe the suspect climbed on the Jacuzzi tub in the back yard and got in through a window. The victim was able to track her vehicle to Fairview Avenue, where police recovered it.

Officers swept the area and found three other vehicles in that neighborhood that had been broken into. Police talked with residents who shared surveillance footage of the suspect, and found that a man matching the description was staying at the Howard Johnson's Hotel on Black Horse Pike. Officers began a stake out of the man's hotel room, police said.

During the investigation, officers were dispatched to another vehicle burglary in the area, and found another stolen vehicle that had been reported stolen by a nearby business. The stolen vehicle was a short distance from the hotel, police said.

When the suspect left his room, officers approached him and he ran away on foot, police said. After a short chase, police arrested him and charged him with the string of burglaries. Police say they recovered stolen items from the vehicles and the residence.

Police took Taylor to the Camden County Detention Facility, the news release said.