Crime & Safety
Family Flees Maplewood House As Man Breaks In, Police Say
A Maplewood man, 23, was charged with trespassing following a break-in on Saturday, police said.
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A Maplewood family fled their home and called 911 as a man was breaking into the front of the house, police said Monday. They said a 23-year-old Maplewood man was charged with trespassing.
Police said that at 6:14 p.m. on Saturday, they received a 911 call from a resident of Claremont Drive that reported an unknown man trying to get into their home through a first-floor window.
The family "exited out the rear door and ran to a nearby neighbor's home while staying on the phone with Maplewood Dispatch," police said.
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Police found a 23-year-old Maplewood man in a third-floor bedroom, police said.
He was taken to Newark Beth Israel Hospital for evaluation, police said.
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The man was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, police said.
Police sent out a message to residents that evening, alerting them that there was a suspect taken into custody on Claremont Drive.
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