UNION COUNTY LOCALSOURCE LOCALSOURCE.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011 — PAGE 13

UCPO investigates police-involved shooting in UnionThe Union County Prosecu-

tor's Office is investigating apolice-involved shooting thattook place April 22 at about 3p.m. at 1853 Manor Dr. UnionTownship, said ProsecutorTheodore J. Romankow.

So far, the investigation hasrevealed that while on routinepatrol, a uniformed member ofthe Union Police Departmentlocated a stolen car occupied byseveral suspects. As he attempt-ed to confront the suspects theybegan to flee the scene, drag-ging the officer along the road.

The officer fired his serviceweapon, striking one of the sus-pects. Both the officer and sus-pect were taken to local hospi-tals where they were treated andreleased, according to UnionPolice Director Dan Zeiser.

"This remains an activeinvestigation and charges arepending against the suspects,"Romankow said in a pressrelease. As a matter of policy,the Prosecutor's Office investi-gates whenever an officer fires aweapon while in the line of duty.

The officers name and thename of the suspect had notbeen released as of press timeTuesday.

Cranford• Richard Gonzalez, 51, of Gar-

wood was arrested April 18 at 11:36p.m. on South Avenue West/LincolnAvenue West and was charged withpossession of prescription drugsand possession of a controlled dan-gerous substance.

Gonzalez was approached bypolice during a suspicious personinvestigation in the area of the Bankof America. Following an investiga-tion at the scene, police found Gon-zalez to be in possession of fourpills, suspected methadone and pre-scription pain killers.

• Erin Ingram, 28, of Cranford,was arrested April 18 at 1:52 a.m.on Raritan Road/Coleman Avenueand was charged with possession ofa controlled dangerous substance,marijuana, possession of parapher-nalia and multiple traffic warrants.

A 2005 black Toyota wasstopped for an inoperable brakelight. After detecting an odor ofburnt marijuana in the vehicle.police conducted an investigation atthe scene. The driver, Ingram, wasdetermined to have multiple out-standing warrants for her arrest. Shewas taken into custody and wasfound to have one bag of suspectedmarijuana and a package of rollingpapers located on her person. Shewas also cited for having a suspend-ed drivers license.

• David Willenbrock, 22, ofCranford and Jared Geraci, 21, ofRahway were arrested April 16 onCentennial Avenue/Hayes Street

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and were charged with possessionof a controlled dangerous sub-stance, marijuana, possession ofparaphernalia and possession ofprescription drugs.

A 2001 green Toyota wasstopped for having inoperable brakelights. After detecting an odor ofburnt marijuana, police conductedan investigation at the scene. Thedriver, Geraci, was found to be inpossession of suspected marijuanaand was placed under arrest. Thefront seat passenger, Willenbrock,was found to be in possession ofprescription painkillers and wasplaced under arrest. Geraci was alsoissued a traffic summons for main-tenance of lamps.

• Robert Backof, 50, of Gar-wood was arrested April 16 at 11:55p.m. on Centennial Avenue/NorthLehigh Avenue and was chargedwith driving while intoxicated andcareless driving.

Police responded to a two-vehi-cle crash on Centennial Avenue.Following an investigation at thescene, one of the drivers, Backof,was arrested for driving whileintoxicated.

• Kyle Tem, 53, of Roselle wasarrested April 15 at 9:12 p.m. at 8Springfield Ave. and was chargedwith contempt of court. Terry wasarrested at Cranford Police Head-quarters on an outstanding criminalwarrant issued by the CranfordMunicipal Court related to a 2010narcotics charge.

• Jared L. Williams, 18, ofMaplewood was arrested April 15at 8:36 p.m. on North AvenueEast/Carpenter Place and wascharged with possession of marijua-na and possession of paraphernalia.

A 1998 red Plymouth wasstopped for blocking traffic onNorth Avenue. After detecting anodor of burnt marijuana in the vehi-cle, police conducted an investiga-tion at the scene of the stop. A rearseat passenger, Williams, was foundto be in possession of six bags ofsuspected marijuana. The driver, a19-year-old male from SouthOrange, was released with a motorvehicle citation for delaying traffic.

• Koctrell Battle, 37, of Eliza-beth and Louis Belviso, 33, ofRoselle Park were arrested April 15at 6:51 p.m. on North AvenueEast/Elizabeth Avenue and werecharged with possession of a con-trolled dangerous substance,cocaine, possession of parapherna-lia and civil contempt warrant.

A 1996 white Plymouth wasstopped for seatbelt violations. Dur-ing the stop, a rear seat passenger,Battle, was allegedly observed to bein possession of a suspected home-made crack pipe and was removedfrom the vehicle. He was also deter-mined to be in possession of sus-pected cocaine. The front seat pas-senger, Belviso, was found to have

a civil contempt warrant issued bythe Union County Sheriff's Office.The driver, a 40-year-old male fromScotch Plains, was released fromthe scene.

Hillside• A 42-year-old Hillside resident

was robbed and brutally beaten onApril 19 in front of his home at1456 Franklin St. in Hillside at 9:03p.m.

The victim reports that fourmales appearing to be in their teenswalked up to him and knocked himto the ground and began to brutallybeat him by punching and kickinghim in the head. They then stole hiswallet containing $250 in cash andhis cell phone valued at $50 and ranoff in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information isurged to call the Crime Stoppersanonymous tipline at 908-654-TIPS, send a message to UCTIP at274637 or CRIMES or via theCrime Stoppers website atwww.uctip.org. All tips are keptanonymous and confidential. Peo-ple with information regarding thecrime are also urged to contact theHillside police detective bureau at973-926-5800.

• Four 14-15-year-old male Hill-side residents were robbed at 9:53p.m. on April 17.

As the victims were walkingnear the intersection of North BroadStreet and Ridgeway they wereapproached by three men, one whotold them to "1 have a gun. Runyour pockets." The juveniles beganto give them what they had, cellphones and a small amount of cash.Once the subjects took the victims'belongings they fled south towardElizabeth.

The first subject is described asa black male, about 5 feet, 8 inchestall, with a dreadlock hairstyle. Hewas wearing a red and white Adidastrack jacket. The second and thirdsubjects are only described as lightcomplexion Black males.

Anyone with information isurged to call the Crime Stoppersanonymous tipline at 908-654-TIPS, send a message to UCTIP at274637 or CRIMES or via theCrime Stoppers website atwww.uctip.org. All tips are keptanonymous and confidential. Peo-ple with information regarding thecrime are also urged to contact theHillside police detective bureau at973-926-5800.

• On April 16 at 8:09 p.m. theowner of the Happy Face Cleanerswas robbed at gunpoint and "pistol-whipped."

Hillside police responded to1604 Maple Ave. on a report of arobbery. Police learned that as theowner of Happy Face Cleaners wasgetting into his car a man allegedlypushed him into his vehicle, jumpedon top of him and began to beat himabout the head with a handgun. Thesubject then violently dragged himout of the car and stole $3,500 incash from the man's pocket. He

then ran south on Maple Avenue andwest on Williamson Avenue. Thesubject is described only as a shortblack male wearing a black mask.

Anyone with information isurged to call the Crime Stoppersanonymous tipline at 908-654-TIPS,send a message to UCTIP at 274637or CRIMES or via the Crime Stop-pers website at www.uctip.org. Alltips are kept anonymous and confi-dential. People with informationregarding the crime are also urged tocontact the Hillside police detectivebureau at 973-926-5800.

Linden• Charles D. Flowers, 46, of Lin-

den was charged with burglary andcriminal mischief.

On Aug. 20 someone broke intoan apartment at 200 W. ElizabethAve. by breaking a bathroom win-dow to gain entry. However, the bur-glar apparently cut himself on theglass pane and dripped blood in thebathroom and the apartment. Dec-tectives collected a sample of theblood and sent it to the Union Coun-ty Crime Lab for analysis.

Flowers was arrested a few dayslater after fleeing the scene of anapartment burglary in Rahway. Rah-way Police obtained a DNA samplefrom Flowers after he was arrested.Recently, Linden detectives wereinformed by their Rahway counter-parts that Flowers' DNA matchedblood evidence taken from the Lin-den apartment burglary.

Rahway• Police are investigating a theft

that occurred April 18 at 5:30 p.m.on Felver Court.

• Police are investigating a theftthat occurred April 18 at 4:42 p.m.on East Milton Avenue

• Police are investigating a theftthat occurred April 18 at 1:46 p.m.on Orchard Street.

• Police are investigating a theftthat occurred April 18 at 9:36 a.m.on East Milton Avenue.

• Police are investigating a bur-glary that occurred April 18 at 7:35a.m. on Witherspoon Street.

Summit• Lyle L. Dungee, 25, of Plain-

field was arrested April 18 at 2:59p.m. on Springfield Avenue and wascharged with driving while suspend-ed.

• Daniel Didario, 47, ofSomerville was arrested April 15 at1:56 a.m. on Summit Avenue andwas charged with driving whileintoxicated.

• Max Jarett Slavin, 20, of Bask-ing Ridge was arrested April 14 at10:46 p.m. on Broad Street and wascharged with purchasing an alco-holic beverage while under legal ageand possession or use of a fake ID topurchase alcohol.

• Brianna L. Cress, 18, of NewProvidence was arrested April 14 at8:02 p.m. on Broad Street and wascharged with underage purchase ofalcohol and possession or use of afake ID to purchase alcohol.

• Drew D. Miller, 25, of

Bushkill, Pennsylvania, was arrest-ed April 14 at 2:47 p.m. on SummitAvenue and was charged with driv-ing while suspended.

Union• Raymond Girona was arrested

on April 21 at 6:38 p.m. on MorrisAvenue and was charged with hav-ing an outstanding warrant.

• Alexander Rozbam was arrest-ed on April 21 at 5:19 p.m. onSpringfield Road and was chargedwith shoplifting.

• Anthony McLean was arrestedon April 21 at 2:50 a.m. on IndianaStreet and was charged withobstruction and resisting during amotor vehicle stop.

• Melissa Simmons was arrestedon April 20 at 7:14 p.m. on route 22and was charged with prescriptionfraud.

• Roman Moyzman was arrestedon April 20 at 2:42 p.m. on the Gar-den State Parkway and was chargedwith possession of a controlled dan-gerous substance.

• Bethany Hulsizer was arrestedon April 20 at 2:26 p.m. on the Gar-den State Parkway and was chargedwith possession of a controlled dan-gerous substance.

• Kcilor Cespedes was arrestedon April 20 at 2:28 a.m. on Morrisand Burnet avenues and wascharged with driving while intoxi-cated.

• Tonette Sanders was arrestedon April 19 at 6:28 p.m. on Route 78and Liberty Avenue and wascharged with eluding. Sanders'vehicle was wanted for a robbery inMillburn earlier in the day. After abrief pursuit ensued, the suspect wasarrested by Officers Simon andMcLaughlin.

• Jose Tenelema was arrested onApril 19 at 10:12 a.m. on OaklandAvenue and was charged with hav-ing outstanding warrants.

• David Stewart was arrested onApril 19 at 10:07 a.m. on HiltonAvenue and was charged with pos-session of a controlled dangeroussubstance.

Union County Police• Anca Brower, 32, of Kendall

Park was arrested April 18 at 2 p.m.on Broad Street in Hillside and wascharged with possession of heroin,possession of hypodermic needlesand motor vehicle summons.

Brower was arrested after amotor vehicle stop was initiatedafter she failed to use a turning sig-nal at an intersection. After a briefinvestigation, the driver, Brower,was found to be in possession ofthree hypodermic needles and sixtyripped open empty heroin folds.

The information published inPolice Blotter is provided by localpolice departments in accordancewith the Open Public Records Act.All persons charged are presumedinnocent until proven guilty in acourt of law.