Citizen's call results in burglary arrest

Published: Thursday, April 09, 2009

Mullica Township - Two Williamstown men were charged with burglary and conspiracy after police received a tip from a concerned citizen.

At about 11 a.m. March 31, police received a call about a vehicle driving slowly along the 3600 block of Reading Avenue. When police arrived, they found the vehicle and its occupants in the driveway of a Reading Avenue home and determined that the home had been burglarized....Continue Reading

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Police arrested Kevin Wrigley, 42, and Joseph Christiansen, 36. Wrigley was charged with the burglary and taken to the Atlantic County Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail. Christiansen was charged with conspiracy and taken to the same facility on unrelated traffic warrants.

A subsequent cooperative investigation with the Hamilton Township and Hammonton police departments, as well as the State Police Buena station, revealed that Wrigley committed additional burglaries in the surrounding areas, police said.

He was charged with burglary and theft stemming from a March 24 crime in the Laureldale section of Hamilton Township and a March 30 burglary on Eighth Street in Hammonton. Bail for the Hamilton Township incident was set at $50,000, or 10 percent. Bail information for the Hammonton crime was not available.

Police said the investigation is ongoing because there are still similar burglaries in the western part of the county that are unsolved.

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