10/5/2006     5:31 PM

Township police investigated two separate incidents involving individuals driving motor vehicles on the soccer fields located off Cranbury Road. The first incident took place at 2:45 PM on Monday, Oct. 3. Police responded to the area of the Middlesex County Fairgrounds on a report of a white Toyota being driven on the Township owned fields. When Patrolman Robert Allen arrived, he observed the vehicle in question in the parking lot being driven at a high rate of speed. A total of six township juveniles were present and two individuals, both 17 year old males who reside in East Brunswick, admitted to driving the vehicle on the fields. It appeared that the other individuals may have been video taping the two driving on the fields. Damage was estimated at $1000. The two juveniles who drove the vehicle were charged with criminal mischief.

The second incident took place at 5:31 PM on Thursday, October 5, 2006. Police were again dispatched to the area of the Fairgrounds on a report of a vehicle damaging the soccer fields. The vehicle involved was a black Jeep wagon, which was spotted by the officers responding on Cranbury Rd. Patrolmen Felix De La Cruz and Mike Plaskon stopped the vehicle onto Merrill Avenue and found the vehicle had fresh mud and hydro seeding material stuck to it. The fields that had been damaged had been recently hydro seeded. The subsequent investigation determined that a 17 year old male East Brunswick resident and 18 year old Andrew Chin, also of East Brunswick had participated in the damage to the fields. Both individuals were charged with criminal mischief and released with court dates. There is no estimate available for the damage of this incident.