N.J. Fugitive Who Stole Traffic Cones Captured In Bensalem: Authorities

A New Jersey man has been arrested in Bensalem for failing to appear in court on charges of second-degree burglary and receiving stolen property.

Bernard M. Kanuck, 34, who is accused of stealing traffic cones last fall, was arrested by officers with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and the Bensalem Police Department after detectives determined that Kanuck was staying at a home in Bensalem.

When police attempted to arrest him at that home on April 3, Kanuck ran off on foot, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.

Detectives chased him through two local trailer parks and were ultimately able to arrest him. He was charged as a fugitive from justice and placed in the Bucks County Jail, pending extradition to New Jersey.

Kanuck allegedly stole the traffic cones and other property worth a total of $750 from a construction business in Williamstown on Oct. 24, 2016.

In that incident, he is accused of driving a commercial vehicle from the business into another car that was occupied at the time. He has also previously been accused of stealing a credit card from a house in his hometown of Franklin Township in 2014.

The attached image of Bernard M. Kanuck was previously provided by the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office

With reporting by Anthony Bellano