Police officers arrested Wyman Nance Jr., 18, following a foot chase in a West Ward neighborhood early Wednesday.
TRENTON -- Officers nabbed a teenage burglary suspect after spotting him as he tried to back a resident's car out of a Berkeley Avenue driveway, Trenton police said.
Police officers arrested Wyman Nance Jr., 18, following a foot chase in a West Ward neighborhood early Wednesday. He was eventually found hiding near a shed behind a Riverside Avenue home, police said.
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Trenton police file photo.Police spokesman Lt. Stephen Varn said patrol officers Vincent Gribbin and Samuel Santiago responded to report of a burglary in progress at 2:10 am. Wednesday at the home, in the 900 block of Berkeley Avenue.
The officers saw a vehicle backing out of the driveway and blocked it. When the driver, later identified as Nance, saw the officers, he bolted from the vehicle, Varn said.
Nance ran into the neighborhood and the officers ran after him, but eventually they stopped, called for backup and set up a perimeter, Varn said.
K-9 officer Jose Villanueva and his dog Thor located Nance hiding near a shed in the 900 block of Riverside Avenue.
Officers later learned that the vehicle Nance was backing out of the driveway belonged to the resident, and he'd allegedly been inside the house and stole several electronic items, personal items - and vehicle keys.
Police recovered the stolen items and charged Nance with burglary, theft, obstruction of law and resisting arrest.
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