Men Broke into Hazlet, Aberdeen Homes, Stole from Kmart, Police Say

Hazlet, NJ - Three men, one of them a Middletown resident, were indicted Tuesday for breaking into homes in Hazlet and Aberdeen, and stealing from the Hazlet Kmart on Rt. 35, the Monmouth County prosecutor’s office announced.

Connor Mahan, 22, of Forest Avenue in Middletown, and Harry Paule, Jr., 46, of Toms River, tried to break into a Hazlet Township home almost a year ago, on Jan. 20, 2015, prosecutors charge. They were indicted for attempted burglary.

Two days later, on Jan. 22, 2015, Paule and another man, William Chirichello, 25, of Jackson, broke into a home on Reids Hill Road in Aberdeen by knocking down the door, prosecutors charge. In that home invasion, Paule and Chirichello took more than $500 worth of jewelry, prosecutors allege. They were both indicted for burglary Tuesday.

Then, on Feb. 2 of last year, all three men together were caught shoplifting from the Kmart off Rt. 35 in Hazlet, where they stole more than $500 worth of goods from the store, police allege. A grand jury indicted all three for that crime as well.

A Monmouth County man by the same name of Harry Paule Jr. has done prison time in the past for burglaries, and allegedly broke into a home in Keansburg in 2004 only a week after he got out of jail.