A woman walking along Herbertsville Road was accosted by three men, robbed and cut with a boxcutter Thursday afternoon, police said.
According to Brick Police Capt. John Rein, the police department received a call at about 3:25 p.m. Thursday from the Krauszers convenience store on Herbertsville Road reporting a woman had been robbed of her purse and cut in the process.
The victim, a 38-year-old township woman, told police she was walking along a trail on the side of Herbertsville Road near the Brick Township Fire Training Center when she was accosted by three young men. One of the group attempted to steal the victim's purse by cutting the shoulder strap with a box cutter and, in the process, cut the victims right hand.
All three then fled the area on foot, two running south on Maple Ave. and one running into the wooded area to the rear of the fire training center, Rein said.
The area was searched by police officers and K-9 units but the suspects were not found by Thursday evening.
The victim was treated on scene by Brick Police EMS and transported to for treatment of her injury.
The suspects are described as teenaged, black males with a light complexion, one wearing a red hooded jacket, one wearing black and yellow jacket and the last wearing a black leather jacket.
Police are asking anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Brick Township Police Detective Kenneth Steinberg at 732-262-1120.
So, yes, we need more police. Perhaps we, the citizens of Brick, can stand up and say " Enough" of these people ruining our town! We need to go to the town hall meetings and MAKE NOISE , not excuses of why we didn't attend. I want to just say again - the police are just as disgusted as we are.....
I think what reality is saying, is that if we didn't have a force so top loaded with over paid commanders, perhaps we could have a few more lower paid patrolmen on our streets. With all do respect, $100k+ is alot of money for police in this town. Especially for the higher ranks that do not patrol anymore. And again, I respect greatly what you do for this town, please don't take my comments as a sign of contempt, its more of frustration. It just seems to me that if the top dogs weren't paid so much, we could have a few more patrolmen helping you out. And i may be way off base of course, but do our Sargents, Lieutenants, and Captains ride on patrol? I would love to have the SET team return, I understand it was ended bc of monetary issues. Its just hard for the common man to hear that manpower was reduced bc of money issues when so many of our police are making 100k+. I dont mind the patrolmen making more money bc of overtime, it bothers me that so many of our senior officers make a base salary of 100k+ when they haven't written a ticket in years.
I come in maybe twice a week if it's a subject that concerns me I try to read it daily but never have the time for long retorts. This morning most of the blogs were from Hollowman?
Truthfully, I've been researching this issue and it appears to be a problem everywhere. Our problem is that the area in question is more of a failure of the township and management ordinances. There should be no sublets, only owners. Or at the very least owners should be required to have a residence in the town or in the complex. Maybe some others have ideas, but the township and management company better do something about this now.
There are plenty of good residents there but the character of this town is being brought down by the few waiting in the shadows with box cutters who happen to live there, because the property owner decided to f*** the rest of the area by going section 8. That was a choice made by the owner, not MGMT.
Since these problems we are discussing are not self regulating, then it should be the responsibility of the township and Mgmt to see that what we've learned thus far is not repeated. It seems that the Mgmt there is not taking an active roll in being a good neighbor to others living in the area. The landlords are interested in one thing and that is collecting rent (since the problem is there and we are here posting about it,) one must assume that they don't care or they would take an active role in getting rid of the crap that lives in their complex. I don't care if the whole town were filled with section 8'ers as long as they aren't stabbing women on the street for their handbags and selling drugs. A useful tool in law enforcement where I came from was debriefing. Every person put thru the system regardless of the crime was "debriefed". Questions such as: Do you know of anyone in your area involved in crime? Have you noticed an suspicious activity in your neighborhood? etc. This often reveals the "hidden crimes" occurring in a town that most people (or the police for that matter) don't see. Yet when presenting these questions to everyone "picked up" will sometimes give you the info you need to see these crimes or at least observe the persons revealed by the info.
I wouldn't have blogged now had I not seen 10 comments in my E mail as I passed the PC. BTW I'm not a man but guess only men can comment or be police officers.
There has been a HUGE improvement in the entire development since MSK Property management has taken over last year. The maintenance has improved dramatically, there are cameras everywhere which has scared away most of the druggies, etc. Once they found out they were being watched and videotaped they left. I have asked many of the neighbors who used to complain about things happeneing at the bus stops, etc. They all confirmed they haven't seen anything since the new security and cameras have been implemented. Everyone feels much safer now and it has gotten much quieter. Things are looking up!