PRESS RELEASE FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 19, 2009
JAN. 5 8:30 PM
WHILE ON FOOT PATROL ON FARNSWORTH AVE. A SUBJECT WAS
OBSERVED RIDING HIS BICYCLE ON THE SIDEWALK WITHOUT A LAMP.
THAT SUBJECT WAS STOPPED, ADVISED OF THE VIOLATION AND WAS
REQUESTED TO PROVIDE IDENTIFICATION. UNABLE TO CONFIRM THE
IDENTITY OF THE SUBJECT WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED, THAT SUBJECT
WAS ESCORTED TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS WHERE IT WAS LEARNED HE
HAD PROVIDED POLICE WITH FALSE INFORMATION. UPON PROVIDING
POLICE WITH HIS REAL IDENTITY IT WAS NOTED THAT TRENTON HAD
THREEE OUTST ANDING WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST. A SEARCH OF THE
ARRESTED PRODUCED A PIPE COMMONLY USED FOR SMOKING CDS ..
THAT SUBJECT, JOHNNY WESTFIELD AGE 50, CURRENTLY RESIDING AT A
LOCAL MOTEL, WAS CHARGED WITH HINDERING APPREHENSION AND
POSSESSION OF CDS PARAPHERNALIA. BAIL WAS SET AT $2,500.00 AND
BEING UNABLE TO POST SAME, HE WAS LODGED IN THE BURLINGTON
COUNTY JAIL.
ARRESTING OFFICER DET/SERGEANT SHAUN LAFFERTY.
JANUARY 10 2:41 AM
POLICE OBSERVED A VEHICLE MAKE AN IMPROPER U-TURN IN THE
INTERSECTION OF RT. 130/206. THAT VEHICLE WAS STOPPED AND UPON
THE DRIVER NOT BEING ABLE TO PRODUCE A VALID REGISTRATION FOR
THE VEHICLE AND THE STRONG ODOR OF BURNT MARIJUANA
EMANATING FROM THE CARS INTERIOR, POLICE ASKED IF THERE WAS
ANY MARIJUANA IN THE CAR. THE DRIVER AND HIS PASSENGER STATED
NO, HOWEVER, UPON SEARCHING THE VEHICLE POLICE FOUND
MARIJUANA AND CDS PARAPHERNALIA ALONG WITH AN UNOPENED
BOTTLE OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE.
THE DRIVER, 19 YEAR OLF MICHAEL FEIST OF MARYLAND, WAS CHARGED
WITH POSSESSION OF CDS, POSSESSION OF PARAPHERNALIA, UNDERAGE
POSSESSION OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE, ALONG WITH TWO MOTOR
VEHICLE VIOLATIONS OF IMPROPER U-TURN AND POSSESSION OF CDS IN A
MOTOR VEIDCLE. MR. FEIST IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN COURT LATER
THIS MONTH.