Second House Ransacked in Trenton with Food Thrown Around

A 51-year-old woman called at about midnight Jan. 17 after she came home to find someone had ransacked her house and thrown food around her kitchen in the 300 block of George Street.

This is the second report to involve food thrown around a ransacked home in the last 10 days.

Police said food had been pulled out of the cupboards and refrigerator and then thrown about the kitchen. A box of cereal had been opened and scattered on the kitchen floor and “what appeared to be syrup had been sprayed about the kitchen,” according to a Trenton police report.

Several sections of copper piping had been cut out of the basement plumbing and were stacked in the hallway. The cut pipes caused water to leak and there was standing water on the basement floor.

Police said they shut the water off from the main to stop the water from leaking further.

This is the second house to be ransacked in this manner the last ten days.

, his apartment on Fort Street was ransacked and food items were removed from the refrigerator and smeared onto the walls. There were also obscenities spray painted onto the walls.

The incident on George Street did not involve spray paint.

Trenton Police Chief Jim Nardone said he doesn’t have any information to show the two incidents were related.

“We don’t have any evidence to link the two at this time,” Nardone said.

The man said several items were missing from his apartment including a 50-inch flat screen television, laptop, digital camera, Nintendo Wii game console, jewelry box containing two rings, a gold bracelet with a cross and a gold chain, several clothes items and $300 cash.

The woman on George Street said the only items missing from her house were $60 cash and two savings bonds of unknown value.

Police said they are still investigating both incidents.

For questions on the police blotter, email natestemen@patch.com.