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Bridgeton burglary arrest, but computer still missing
Thursday, May 10, 2007
By SEAN C. McCULLEN
Staff Writer

BRIDGETON -- Police arrested a Fairfield Township man on Wednesday and charged him with burglarizing Modern Heating's North Pearl Street office in mid-April.

Det. Earl 'Skip' Burgmann arrested Christopher M. Ransom, 35, of Tip's Trailer Park, at a Kintock halfway house on Industrial Boulevard around 9 a.m. Wednesday, Det. Lt. Michael Gaimari said.

Ransom was charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft and one count of criminal mischief, Gaimari said.

He was lodged in the county jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Ransom reported to the halfway house on a parole violation a few days after he broke into Modern Heating, Gaimari said.

The business' owners reported on Saturday, April 14, that someone forced open a series of doors leading into their office and stole a Dell computer and the keys to several vehicles before fleeing the scene in one of the company's vans.

It is believed the burglary occurred between 9:30 p.m. April 13 and 7:30 a.m. April 14.

State police recovered the 1993 Dodge van behind the former Bowl-O-Drome facility on Route 49 in Fairfield on April 14, shortly after the burglary was reported, but more than $2,000 worth of heating supplies and tools had been removed from it.

While police have recovered some of the property stolen from Modern Heating, the Dell computer still is missing, Gaimari said.

"We'd really like to get this computer tower back," Gaimari said. "It apparently is pretty important to the business."

Police are not looking to charge anyone who may have bought the computer or any other Modern Heating property from Ransom in mid-April.

"Right now, our intent is to get the property back and not charge anyone additionally," Gaimari said, noting police have no reason to believe Ransom had an accomplice in the burglary. "We certainly would cooperate with someone who may not have known something was stolen and bought it (from Ransom)."