Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Resumes are due Friday, May 31.
Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate submitted the following announcement: The Borough of Oaklyn is currently recruiting for police officer, in order to establish an eligibility list for current & future vacancies. We are seeking energetic, enthusiastic, and hard working individuals for our Police Department. The Borough of Oaklyn Police Department is a service-oriented agency whose members take pride in their proactive response to crime, disorder and quality of life issues. This approach recognizes our community’s high expectations for professional police services and has sustained a positive relationship with the community for many years. The Borough of Oaklyn currently employs 11 full-time police officers, one SLEO II (Special Law …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The owner of an unsecured vehicle lost some personal electronics in the break-in, which was said to occur between March 1 and March 8.
Oaklyn Police are looking for help in identifying the person or persons who apparently broke into an unlocked vehicle in the borough and made off with some electronic equipment. According to a statement from Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph T. Abbate, the vehicle in question was parked in the area of Manor and Congress Avenues. It was entered illegally at some point between March 1 and March 8. If that window of time weren't broad enough, to make matters worse, the statement also notes that investigators were unable to collect any physical evidence from the scene. "Police again ask that residents lock their vehicles," Abbate noted in the statement. "These are crimes of opportunity, and if your vehicle is locked, the actor(s) will most likely …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Chief Joseph Abbate shed some light on his call for public input on a reported incident last week.
Last week, Oaklyn Police sent out a very vague call for public aid in the matter of an incident that may or may not have occurred outside the CVS on the White Horse Pike between 7 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 28. At the time, Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate said that releasing too much information on what may have been seen—or not seen, for that matter—could compromise the investigation. Today, Abbate explained the need for secrecy. "The initial report came in to police as an abduction," Abbate said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. "At the beginning, responding officers were skeptical about the manner in which this incident was reported," the statement read. "Investigators are now confident that this did not take place. Furthermore, the …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Whether something happened or didn't happen, said Chief Joseph Abbate, giving out too much information could taint the investigation.
Police reports cross our desks all the time here at Patch, but this is one of the strangest. According to a press release issued by Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate, the department is seeking "information regarding an incident that took place outside the Oaklyn CVS pharmacy on Monday, Jan. 28," between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m. "Anyone who was in that area between those times shopping or traveling along the White Horse Pike or along West Lakeview Avenue is asked to call Oaklyn detectives" at 856-854-0049, the announcement reads. A phone call to Abbate couldn't clear things up too much, either, as the chief said that releasing too much information on what may have been seen—or not seen, for that matter—could compromise the investigation. …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Police say that Concetta Durham, 68, of Mullica Hill, had been altering checks issued to her for years, collecting about $2,500 in the process.
The caregiver of an elderly Oaklyn resident was arrested Monday when police discovered that she allegedly had been altering checks issued to her for these services to the tune of some $2,500 over several years. Concetta Durham, 68, of Mullica Hill, “confessed to changing the check amounts and then using the money for her own personal needs” according to a press release issued by Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate. Durham was charged with forgery and theft of movable property, and was released on her own recognizance pending a Jan. 22 Superior Court hearing. Further charges could be handed down pending investigation. “We would ask that you look out for your elderly neighbors, friends and family members as much as possible,” Abbate said in …
Monday, January 7, 2013
Police say that two of the men charged in the incident had a familiarity with the pharmacy franchise, as they had been fired from another CVS location the week of the robbery.
A few weeks after issuing warrants for suspects wanted in the Dec. 12, 2012, strong-arm robbery of the Oaklyn CVS, police have charged three Camden City men in connection with the incident. According to a statement provided by Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate, “all three are accused by police of planning the robbery and theft” and “evidence of this crime was recovered during the arrest of these individuals.” Adrian Thomas, 19, Dhamiri Hughes Pettigrew, 21, and Darius Williams, 20, were arrested, charged and remanded to the Camden County correctional facility, where they await a Superior Court hearing. Police say two of the men—including Hughes Pettigrew, whom security footage shows entering the store wearing a CVS shirt—were recently …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Early Sunday morning, a young woman struck a parked car, damaging her own vehicle severely in the process, and then fled the scene, police say. Have you seen anything?
Oaklyn Police are looking for any information from the public that could help solve a hit-and-run case involving an unoccupied, parked vehicle. The incident occurred in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 2. According to a statement issued by Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph Abbate, “Witnesses observed a young female, possibly 20-30 years old, with shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing hot pink pants, a black top, and high-heeled shoes standing in the street, surveying damage to the vehicle.” The woman was reportedly driving a “possibly silver” mid-sized sedan or coupe that suffered “visible damage to the front passenger fender” and a flattened front passenger wheel in the incident. According to police, after striking the parked car and …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The crime dates back to Halloween and was recently discovered by Oaklyn police in a review of surveillance footage connected with an unrelated matter.
Oaklyn police are seeking help from the public in identifying a suspect wanted in the theft of money from a charity collection box on the counter of the Route 30 Wawa. As seen in surveillance footage, the subject entered the store about 11:30 p.m. on Halloween, wearing a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap, a red and black jacket, dark pants, and dark shoes. Police say he “approache[d] the counter, and while distracting the cashier, remove[d] the money from the donation box,” according to a press release issued by Oaklyn Police Chief Joseph T. Abbate. Police only discovered the theft after reviewing video footage from an unrelated matter, the release read; it was not initially reported. Anyone with information regarding the matter is invited to …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
In what may be an act of political vandalism, graffiti advertising the counterculture website was found near the Oaklyn railroad tracks.
Alex Jones' Infowars.com is known for stirring the pot, and its readers enjoy doing the same. But today the borough of Oaklyn isn't looking too kindly on the latest monkeyshines to invoke the name of the counterculture website. On Aug. 29 and 30, Oaklyn police found four separate instances of graffiti throughout the borough in which "INFOWARS.COM" had been spray-painted in red and black paint. They collected forensic evidence at the scene of each incident that was submitted to the New Jersey State Police crime lab for processing. Each is being considered a separate act of criminal mischief. "Infowars is your basic anti-government, anti-corruption website," wrote Patch tech blogger Gabe Fletcher in an email. "That is what most of the …
Monday, August 13, 2012
Freeholder Louis Cappelli says that spillover from the most dangerous city in America is Collingswood's biggest problem. Veteran officers say the plan is a union-busting sham.
Headlines across the country scream the worst—but then, that’s to be expected when one of the most dangerous cities in America decides to lay off its entire police force. The recently announced plan to reshape the Camden City police force within the metro arm of a county-wide law enforcement division represents the collision of several intensifying concerns. There are no other county-wide departments in the state of New Jersey, and there is no bigger challenge facing what will be its first. ‘They have no place else to go but here’ Joseph T. Abbate, Chief of the Oaklyn Police department, said he’s against the idea of a metro police force, and couldn’t even begin to speculate about the adverse effects of dissolving the Camden City police …
Tom Marchetty
1:25 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
Guess they need more officers for the new click it or ticket enforcement??? I'm just messing with you guys! It's just funny timing after last weeks article! :) more ›