Suspect Sought in South Brunswick Break-in With Woman Inside Home

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - South Brunswick Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a suspect who broke into a Monmouth Junction home on Tuesday, they said. A woman was inside her home at the time, when the suspect first knocked on her front door and then forced it open.

At 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, police received a 911 call from a resident on Palladio Boulevard, who reported a suspect had just broken into her home. The resident said she was in her kitchen when she heard a knock at the door. She believed it was a delivery person leaving a package so she did not answer the door. Within seconds, the front door of her home was forced open and a suspect ran into the home and headed up the stairs to the second floor. The suspect then saw the resident in the kitchen and yelled.

The suspect turned around and ran out of the home. The suspect got into the passenger side of a white SUV that was parked along the curb in front of the residence.

Detectives developed a sketch of the suspect with the assistance of the New Jersey State Police. Police recovered video from several nearby businesses and homes, which show the white SUV fleeing the scene headed down Stouts Lane towards Ridge Road near South Brunswick High School in the minutes after the burglary. Police released this sketch of the suspect and video image of the getaway vehicle.

The suspect is described as a light-skinned black male in his 40s, with a medium build, unshaven, short curly black hair, wearing gloves and a blue track suit. The car is a white SUV with tinted windows that was parked next to the mailbox. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call South Brunswick Police at (732) 329-4646