On Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 2:51 a.m., officers responded to a report of a burglary at the 200 block of Grace Avenue, Secaucus police said. The homeowner told police she was sleeping, but called officers when she heard someone inside her home, police said.
When the burglar, later identified as Khalif Willard, heard the resident awake, he fled the scene in a BMW X3 with his co-conspirators, police said. Officers pursued the BMW onto the New Jersey Turnpike until they lost sight of it, police said.
Later that morning, the burglars committed another home invasion in Union, using the BMW X3, police said. Willard attempted to enter another residence on the same Secaucus block earlier that morning, with the goal of stealing residents’ vehicles, police said…