Raheem T. Holland Caught in Alleged Car Burglary Spree

A Glassboro man who was caught in the act by a homeowner was arrested and charged in an early-morning car burglary spree around Delaware Street last week, Chief Craig Mangano said Wednesday.

Raheem T. Holland, 32, was spotted by a homeowner going through a car parked in a driveway off Hudson Avenue around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 20. When the homeowner confronted Holland, who was wearing a bright red shirt, he took off down Delaware toward Woodbury, Mangano said.

West Deptford Sgt. John Chambers and Cpl. Marc White responded to a subsequent call by the homeowner, and in checking the area, talked with a newspaper delivery driver who said she saw a man fitting Holland's description take off into the back yard of a home a few blocks over on Union Avenue.

When she pointed out the yard she saw Holland enter, Chambers and White spotted Holland in the bushes and arrested him.

The two West Deptford officers found a number of items Holland had taken, Mangano said, and eventually determined Holland had burglarized nine cars in the area. Four of those burglaries didn't net anything, but Mangano said Holland managed to steal everything from cash, electronics, clothing, gift cards and even an EMT bag from the other five cars, with a total value of around $1,167.

In all nine cases, the cars—two on Hudson Avenue, two on South Roosevelt Boulevard, three on South Bergen Avenue, one on Middlesex Court and one on Gloucester Avenue—were unlocked, Mangano said.

Holland was charged with five counts of burglary, five counts of theft, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of obstruction, and was taken to the Gloucester County jail.

Roughly 90 percent of the stolen property was able to be returned to its owners, Mangano said.