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Fresh Ponds Road

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Robbers Hit Unlocked Cars on Fresh Ponds

Police are investigating a series of break-ins that occurred Saturday, Sept. 22.

Bandits broke into five cars on Fresh Ponds Road during the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 22, according to police. East Brunswick Police Units responded to Fresh Ponds Road on Saturday morning to investigate several vehicles that had been broken into sometime overnight. All the vehicles that had been broken into were left unlocked and parked in the resident’s driveways. Assorted items were taken from the vehicles including a pocketbook, a GPS unit, credit cards and cash. Anyone with any information is asked to contact Detective John Breen of the East Brunswick Police Department’s Investigative Division at 732-390-6990. In addition, the police department is reminding residents to lock their car doors and not to leave valuables in …

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Chester Copperpot

10:17 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

That is very true. I know people who had convertibles that would leave them unlocked so nobody would cut into the ragtop. However, it's apparent these fine members of society were simply just pulling handles and moving on to cars that were already open. Somebody could have avoided the credit card conundrum and still had their gps if they just locked the doors.   more ›

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Truck Fire Shuts Down Route 130

Route 130 north was closed at Fresh Ponds Road Wednesday morning after a landscaping trailer caught fire.

No injuries were suffered after a trailer hauled by a landscaping truck caught fire on Route 130 this morning. Shortly before 8 a.m., a truck belonging to Kremer Landscaping, of Friendship Road in South Brunswick, was headed down Route 130 north when the trailer attached to the truck caught fire near the Coca Cola distribution facility.     Route 130 was shut down completely until about 8:15 a.m. on the northbound side near Fresh Ponds Road while firefighters extinguished the blaze. Traffic was backed up for close to a mile on the northbound side of Route 130, while traffic was slowed on the southbound side, according to South Brunswick Police. Both lanes on the northbound side of Route 130 were reopened as of 9:30 a.m. Investigators are …

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