Shoplifting Arrest
On Monday, February 11, 2013, at approximately 3:30pm, Ptlm. Wester and Ptlm. Hartmann responded to the Wal Mart located on Route 22 for a report of a female shoplifter. The officers met with the store's Asset Protection employees and were informed that an Erin D. Sawyers was observed shoplifting. Sawyers had been walking throughout the store and concealing fifty-one (51) video games and DVD's totaling $1,211.37. Sawyers had an infant, under the age of one with her and was hiding the items within the car seat and baby stroller.
Sawyers was arrested and both she and the baby were brought back to the police station. Sawyers was charged with shoplifting, a crime in the 3rd degree and was brought down to the County Jail in default of $5,000.00 bail. Erin Sawyers is 20 years old and is currently residing in Branchburg, NJ.