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Ewing man arrested after Trenton officers allegedly saw shotgun in back seat
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on October 31, 2013 at 7:19 PM, updated October 31, 2013 at 7:20 PMTRENTON — A Ewing man who left his pump-action shotgun in plain view on the back seat of a red Camaro was tracked down and arrested in Trenton early Sunday, city police said.
Officers went to Commerce and North Stockton streets just before 4 a.m. on a report of an armed man with a red Camaro, Lt. Steve Varn said. They spotted Lawrence Priester, 31, who fit the descripton of the man, walking on the street and detained him, Varn said.
They found a red Camaro parked in the area and the keys on Priester, and saw the Remington shotgun in the back seat, Varn said.
Trenton man tries fleeing police headquarters dressed as cop, authorities say
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on October 31, 2013 at 7:03 PM, updated October 31, 2013 at 8:48 PMTRENTON — It did not take Trenton detectives working a Sunday shift on the third floor of police headquarters long to single out the new guy in the office — especially when the “new guy” was a suspect allegedly trying to don police clothing and escape.
Rashaun Walker, 27, escaped from an interview room, walked into a sergeant’s office and was trying to get out the building when he was discovered Sept. 29, authorities said. Walker allegedly starting fighting with detectives who questioned him, was subdued, then placed under arrest a second time, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Now, Internal Affairs detectives are investigating the entire matter, including how Walker was able to free himself and attempt to walk to freedom, Lt. Steve Varn said. Varn, who heads the city police department’s detective bureau, declined comment today, citing the Internal Affairs investigation.
Walker was brought into police headquarters the afternoon of Sept. 29 as part of a sex assault and burglary investigation, said Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
Trenton man arrested for firing gun outside West Ward liquor store, police say
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on October 31, 2013 at 6:55 PMTRENTON — A city man fired a gun into the air at least four times outside a West Ward liquor store and led police on a brief foot chase before he was captured Wednesday night, police said.
Two officers were sent to the area on a report of a man with a gun and saw Nathaniel Moore, 31, standing in a vacant lot at the corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Prospect Street shortly after 9:30 p.m. Moore matched the description they had been given, police said.
When Moore saw the officers, he started grabbing at his waistband and they ordered him to show his hands, Lt. Steve Varn said today. Moore allegedly turned away and began running, and the officers ordered him to stop.
The foot chase continued a short distance onto the 400 block of Stuyvesant Avenue, where Moore was tackled by two additional officers who had responded as backup. Moore resisted arrest but was taken into custody, and a semi-automatic handgun was seized from his waistband, Varn said
Drugs, guns, cash seized during raid of East Trenton home, authorities say
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on October 31, 2013 at 6:47 PM, updated October 31, 2013 at 6:48 PMTRENTON — City and county vice detectives working as part of a merged unit raided an East Trenton home Wednesday morning and seized three guns, cash, and marijuana, authorities said.
The vice unit, the State Police TEAMS Unit and county sheriff’s officers executed a search warrant at the home of Irwin “Dread” McKnight on Breunig Avenue. The 6 a.m. raid was the conclusion of an investigation into McKnight’s drug dealing, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said
Officers allegedly found one and a quarter pounds of marijuana in the house. In the living room detectives found a sawed-off shotgun, .38-caliber revolver, digital scale, packaging material for drugs and $200 in cash, the prosecutor’s office said.
Upstairs in a bedroom the investigators found another sawed-off shotgun, while in another bedroom nearly $6,500 cash and a smaller amount of marijuana was found, officials said.