Police blotter

Trenton

Suspect sought: Authorities are looking for a man they say robbed a mobile device store in Trenton last week. Police put out a surveillance screen grab of the unidentified suspect, hoping to identify him. He is considered armed and dangerous after authorities say he held up at gunpoint the Metro PCS store on the 400 block of Hamilton Avenue on Friday morning, Lt. Rolando Ramos said. Those with information about the suspect’s whereabouts are asked to contact Trenton Det. John Avanzato at 609989-4137 or send anonymous tips to CRIMESTOPPERS at 609-695-9773. Daddy Daycare: Instead of stuffing his kindergarten son’s lunchbox with snacks, a city man apparently stuffed it with smack. The father of a 5-year-old kindergartener was arrested and charged last week with endangering after his son had been found with 30 packets of heroin at school. Last week, police publicly named Maurice Leonard, 28, as the daddy who let his son go to the International Academy of Trenton on Sept. 12 with 30 packets of the powerful opiate street drug in his lunchbox. But the Trenton Police department did not respond to multiple phone calls from The Trentonian requesting details about the arrests of Leonard and his girlfriend, Turia Justice, who is not the boy’s mother but also is charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Lt. Ramos provided those details to The Trentonian on Monday, after they were shared last week with other media outlets. The couple was arrested Sept. 21at an apartment complex on the 100 block of Coolidge. Another man, Marquese Justice, who was not implicated in the kindergarten heroin racket, was taken into custody because of warrants out of Trenton and Lawrence, police said. Leonard’s bail hearing was pushed back because he refused to speak with a public defender at the jail. He has since softened his position and will make his first appearance in court later this week. The investigation into the couple started after the boy’s teacher caught him playing with a white packet in class that she thought was a candy wrapper, police have said. The teacher told the student to put the packet away. When the student pulled it back out, the teacher confiscated it and realized it was a packet of heroin. She looked in her student’s lunchbox and found 29 more packets of the potent street drug. The student was tested and came back negative for opioids. He is believed to be in the custody of child welfare officials or staying with relatives, though Ramos couldn’t say for sure. Drug bust: Authorities raided a city man’s home last week, seizing an airsoft replica and about $10,000 worth of street and prescription drugs, police said. Larry Tucker, 50, was the target of a search warrant, obtained by the state police gang central unit. Along with the Trenton Police violent crime squad, they raided a home on the 500 block of Pennington Avenue and seized quantities of marijuana, heroin, Oxycodone and codeine, along with $3,600 in cash following a two-month-long investigation, Lt. Ramos said. It was not clear what prompted the start of the investigation into Tucker, who was hit with multiple drug and drugdealing charges as a result of the raid, which yielded 213 decks of heroin, 73 pills and two ounces of codeine. Authorities said the street value of the drugs exceeded $10,000. They also found an airsoft BB gun, Ramos said. Gun: Anthony Santoro, 42, of Trenton, was arrested following a car stop by the state police gang central unit and the violence crime squad. Police found a 9 mm handgun inside his car, which was stopped on the 800 block of Lyndale Avenue. DV: Brandon Speyer, 24, was charged with aggravated assault, weapons charges, hindering and obstruction following a domestic violence spat with a 37-year-old man. Police said the men fought, and the fisticuffs escalated when Speyer grabbed a knife and cut the victim across the chest, then fled out of window as police approached. The victim went under the knife at the hospital; his injuries were not considered life-threatening, Ramos said. Another DV: Alfred Donaldson, 33, was arrested and charged with simple assault domestic the after a woman said she picked him up on Frasier Street. They argued while they headed home toward Taylor Street. Donaldson is accused of hitting the woman, causing swelling, bruises and a cut to her thigh. He walked off and was later taken into custody.