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[quote="Blotter-2r81"]Hightstown Police Department Police Blotter - On 6/20/12 at 3:56 p.m. at Hightstown Borough Police Department, Mr. Joseph B. Barlow, 68 y/o male of Cranbury, NJ turned himself in on a warrant issued for his arrest, charged with theft. A joint investigation by the Hightstown Borough Police Department and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Economic Crime Unit, resulted in charges against Mr. Barlow ...for the theft of $513,766 from a 96 y/o female victim. Bail in the matter was set at $25,000 and Mr. Barlow was released from custody upon posting bail, with pending court action.[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Cranbury Press-2r81</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Jul 8 2012, 6:40 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">CRANBURY: Businessman accused of bilking relative out of $500K <br />DATE POSTED: Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:45 PM EDT <br />By Charles W. Kim, Packet Media Group <br /> <br /> <br />HIGHTSTOWN — Borough police have charged local funeral home owner Joseph Barlow, 68, of Cranbury, with theft, claiming the businessman stole some $500,000 from a 96-year-old distant relative. <br /> <br /> Mr. Barlow, a partner in the Barlow & Zimmer Funeral Home on Stockton Street in the borough, surrendered to borough police last week on a warrant charging him with one count of theft, according to Hightstown Detective Benjamin Miller. <br /> <br /> According to the warrant, Mr. Barlow obtained power of attorney in March 2011 from a 96-year-old female relative who lives in the borough. (Packet Media Group editors are not identifying the victim because of the nature of the crime.) <br /> <br /> Since that time, the warrant claims, Mr. Barlow wrote a total of four checks to himself, which he then endorsed and cashed at a Wachovia Bank. <br /> <br /> Three of the checks were for $35,000 and the fourth for $55,000, according to the warrant. <br /> In addition, the warrant alleges Mr. Barlow also canceled a life insurance policy on the victim, taking the cash value of more than $300,000 in September 2011. Police were made aware of the alleged activity by the state’s Adult Protective Services in May, according to police. <br /> <br /> Mr. Barlow was released on $25,000 bail, and the case has been referred to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office for possible grand jury action, Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Casey DeBlasio said. <br /> <br /> According to Ms. DeBlasio, the count is a second-degree crime and carries a penalty of five to 10 years in prison if there is a conviction. <br /> <br /> When reached at home Monday, Mr. Barlow referred questions about the case to his attorney. <br /> <br /> Neither Mr. Barlow nor police agencies involved thus far, however, could identify who would be representing him in the case. <br /> <br /> Mr. Barlow and partner Richard Zimmer bought the funeral home from the estate of the late Middlesex County Freeholder Director David B. Crabiel in 2009 for $470,000, according to borough records. <br /> <br /> Both Mr. Barlow and Mr. Zimmer worked in the Crabiel funeral home prior to the purchase, according to the funeral home’s website. <br /> <br /> The property is assessed at $415,000 and generates almost $13,000 in taxes, according to the borough. Taxes on both the funeral home and Mr. Barlow’s North Main Street residence in Cranbury are paid up to date, according to officials. <br /> <br /> The Cranbury residence is assessed at $375,000 and was billed $6,217 in taxes in 2012, according to state records. <br /> <br /> ”They (Police Department) are doing a great job (on the case),” said Police Director James Le Tellier on July 3. “Detective Miller has devoted a lot of time working on this case and with Adult Protective Services to protect the victim from any more harm and wrongdoing.” <br /> <br /> Detective Miller said the investigation is continuing in the case. <br /> <br /> Correspondents Amy Batista and Nicole Cosentino contributed to this report.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>really-6416</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Jul 5 2012, 11:30 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Apparently, this is legitimate: <br /> <br /><a href="http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/report-hightstown-man-accused-of-stealing-500k-from-relative-96" target="_blank">http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/report-hightstown-man-accused-of-stealing-500k-from-relative-96</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>no info online-n72r</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Jul 2 2012, 4:53 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I checked the website of the county prosecutor's office. I did not see a news release; however, the most current was from 6/19. I was unable to locate the source of info on this allegation. Interesting since it appears (or is intended to appear) as a cut and paste of a law enforcement release. <br /> <br />I have no idea of the post's validity. If it is fabricated as one poster suggests, it raises an important issue of online slander.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Slander?-8q9r</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Jul 2 2012, 4:19 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Blotter-2r81 wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Hightstown Police Department <br />Police Blotter - <br /> <br />On 6/20/12 at 3:56 p.m. at Hightstown Borough Police Department, Mr. Joseph B. Barlow, 68 y/o male of Cranbury, NJ turned himself in on a warrant issued for his arrest, charged with theft. A joint investigation by the Hightstown Borough Police Department and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Economic Crime Unit, resulted in charges against Mr. Barlow ...for the theft of $513,766 from a 96 y/o female victim. Bail in the matter was set at $25,000 and Mr. Barlow was released from custody upon posting bail, with pending court action.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Could be slander? It is not in the Hightstown blotter or anywhere else on the internet.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>really-6416</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Jul 2 2012, 12:44 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">How come this isn't in Hightstown Police Blotter for that week? <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.hightstownpolice.com/blotter/june-17-june-23-2012/" target="_blank">http://www.hightstownpolice.com/blotter/june-17-june-23-2012/</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Blotter-2r81</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Jun 29 2012, 6:08 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Blotter</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Hightstown Police Department <br />Police Blotter - <br /> <br />On 6/20/12 at 3:56 p.m. at Hightstown Borough Police Department, Mr. Joseph B. Barlow, 68 y/o male of Cranbury, NJ turned himself in on a warrant issued for his arrest, charged with theft. A joint investigation by the Hightstown Borough Police Department and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Economic Crime Unit, resulted in charges against Mr. Barlow ...for the theft of $513,766 from a 96 y/o female victim. Bail in the matter was set at $25,000 and Mr. Barlow was released from custody upon posting bail, with pending court action.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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