Crime & Safety

Multiple Out-of-State Visitors Arrested For Trespassing At Bonfire Burning In Lacey Pinelands

The bonfire was located at Brickwall Corporation off Lacey Road in Forked River.

Trespassing and building a bonfire in the tinder-dry woods of the Lacey Pinelands near midnight wasn't the brightest thing to do.

Lacey police recently arrested 17 people - all but two from Pennsylvania - at 11:58 p.m. on June 25 after the responded to Brickwall Corporation 2215 Lacey Road in Forked River, in response to trespassing and forest fire concerns, Police Chief David A. Paprota said.

"The group was trespassing on private property and posing a danger with the fire in what has been classified as very dangerous, dry conditions in the Pinelands," the chief said.

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The following individuals were charged with trespassing:

Richard S. Breech, 21, Evergreen Lane in Levittown, PA; Ryan M. Liszewski, 20, Woodside Avenue, Levittown, PA; Kazandra M. Barletti, 18, Stephen Avenue, Croydon, PA; Rachel M. Iatarola, 21, Grandview Avenue, Feasterville-Trevose, PA; David J. Widmann, 19, Peevy Road, East Greenville, PA; Jeffery Wunder, 23, Farmview Drive, Newtown, PA, 18, Mill Drive in Levittown, PA; Maleana E. Rosado Quiles, 18, Mill Drive in Levittown, Caitlin M. Iaquinto, 19, Ivy Hill Road, Levittown, PA; Payton S. Barbour,18, Edgewood Lane, Levittown, PA; Matthew D. Hager, 20, Bristol Oxford Valley, Levittown, PA; Cristina M. Mondello, 20, Jefferson Drive in Brick, NJ; David A. Amato, 20, Eventide Lane in Levittown, PA; Hunter A. Anderson 19, of Doone Road, Fairless Hills, PA; Mary C. Guillenramire, 20,Lincoln Court,Brick, NJ; William J. Bianco, 26, Whitcomb Road, Forked River, NJ; and Allan Grunger, 18, of Carnavon Avenue,Bristol, PA. Jeffery Wunder was also charged with a Municipal Ordinance for Open Burning.

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