🚨 An 18-year-old Somerset man is charged in three home invasion burglaries across Somerset County.
🏠 The break-ins happened in Bernards Township, Green Brook and Bridgewater over just 10 days.
⚠️ A Bridgewater victim was assaulted, injured and had her cellphone taken to prevent her from calling 911, prosecutors said.
A Somerset County teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with a trio of home invasion burglaries last month, Prosecutor John P. McDonald announced.
The home burglaries occurred over the course of 10 days in Bridgewater, Bernards Township and Green Brook Township, and Mohamadu J. Betts, 18, of Somerset, has been identified as the suspect in all three, McDonald said.
Three Somerset County home invasions in 10 days
The first burglary unfolded on Monday, Oct. 19, at approximately 9:32 p.m. in Bernards Township. Police responded to a home on Whitenack Road in Basking Ridge after a resident came home to find a shattered basement window with possible blood droplets and the home ransacked.
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The resident told police a jewelry box containing costume jewelry was taken. Surveillance footage showed the suspect had short blonde and brown dreadlocks.
Three days later on Thursday, Oct. 22, at approximately 2:21 p.m., officers from the Green Brook Township Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious man trying to break through the front door of a house on Warrenville Road…