Man Broke Into Green Brook Home, Stole Jewelry And Gun: Police

GREEN BROOK, NJ — A Plainfield man was arrested and charged in connection with a home burglary in Green Brook.

On Friday, July 6 at around 12:30 p.m. officers from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Burglary Task Force responded to a home on Lillian Street in Green Brook Township to investigate a home burglary.

While at the scene, authorities saw Khiry Moody, 28, of Sumner Avenue in Plainfield leave the area in a motor vehicle. Officers stopped Moody's vehicle in the area of West 8th Street in South Plainfield where they found various items of jewelry belonging to the residents on Lillian Street on him, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson.

Moody was arrested and a search of him and his vehicle found a safe, a handgun, and rounds of ammunition that were taken from the home, Robertson said.

Moody was charged with second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, second-degree possession of a firearm by certain persons, third-degree burglary, third-degree theft, and fourth-degree criminal mischief.

Moody was subsequently lodged in the Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing.

Multiple agencies helped with the arrest including: members of the Bound Brook Police Department, Warren Township Police Department, North Plainfield Police Department, Bridgewater Township Police Department, Bernards Township Police Department, Readington Township Police Department, Edison Police Department, Middlesex Borough Police Department and South Plainfield Police Department.

Anyone with information to contact the Somerset County Prosecutors Office Major Crimes Unit at 908-231-7100, or the Greenbrook Township Police Department at 732-968-1168 or via the STOPit app. The STOPit app allows citizens to provide anonymous reports including videos and photos. STOPit can be downloaded to your smart phone for free at the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, access code: SOMERSETNJ.

Information can also be provided through the Somerset County Crime Stoppers’ Tip Line at 1-888-577-
TIPS (8477) or online at www.888577tips.org or at www.scpo.net and click on either “Crime Stoppers” or “TIPS HOTLINE”. All anonymous Crime Stopper tips will be kept confidential.

(Image via Somerset County Prosecutor's Office: Khiry Moody, 28, of Sumner Avenue, Plainfield)

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