A 27-year-old man was charged with stealing $700.00 worth of fishing equipment from a city home Thursday, police said today.
Police responded to a report of a suspicious man in the backyard of a vacant house on the 500 block of Rosewood Terrace Thursday at approximately 2:10 p.m., Captain James Sarnicki said.
Responding officers located a man fitting the description on Livingston Road near N. Stiles Street.
The man, later identified as Germon Munoz, 27, of Linden, was carrying eight fishing poles and six reels, said the captain.
Additional officers went to the rear of the vacant house and found a storage shed in the rear yard of a house on Elmwood Terrace, which abuts the vacant property, had been ransacked with fishing and sporting equipment strewn on the ground.
An investigation by detectives confirmed that Munoz was responsible for the theft of the fishing equipment, valued at $700.00.
Munoz was charged with burglary, theft, and defiant trespass, and was being held in lieu of $45,000 bail pending a court date set for May 22.
He also had a contempt warrant out of Elizabeth.