Vehicle Burglary, Theft of Identity: Princeton Police Blotter

PRINCETON, NJ – This week’s Princeton police blotter contains the following reports:

On Dec. 5 at 7:54 p.m., a resident of Harriet Drive told police that unknown individual(s) entered their unlocked vehicle between Dec. 4 at 10 p.m. and Dec. 5 at 7:30 a.m. Nothing appeared to have been taken from the vehicle nor was there any damage observed or reported to the vehicle. The Detective Bureau is investigating.

On Dec. 5 a Nassau Street business reported to police that an unidentified man shoplifted several items from a retail store on Dec. 3 at 2:30 p.m. The total value of the stolen items was $653. The Detective Bureau is investigating.

On Dec. 5, a resident reported that the catalytic converter on his mother's vehicle was cut off and stolen from Elm Road. He believes that it happened while her vehicle was parked in a parking lot on Elm Road sometime at the end of October 2022, to the first week of November 2022. The Detective Bureau is investigating.

On Dec. 5 a woman reported that on Dec. 2, an unknown person withdrew $4,600 from her bank checking account utilizing a fictitious form of identification at a branch located in Alabama. The Detective Bureau is investigating.

Dec. 9, police received a report of a suspicious mail collection bin that was left open in the area of Nassau Street and Witherspoon Street. According to investigation, the collection bin was accessed by an unauthorized individual utilizing a key, who had subsequently stolen all of the contents within. The investigation was turned over to the US Postal Inspector.

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