Crime & Safety
Blackwood Man, Sicklerville Woman Among 4 Charged In 2 Fires
A Blackwood man and a Sicklerville woman are among four people who have been charged with burning down two homes in Burlington County.
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — A Blackwood man and a Sicklerville woman are among four people who have been charged with burning down two homes in Burlington County, police announced on Friday.
Ryan Gibbs, 19 of Blackwood, and Summer Wisor, 20 of Sicklerville, have both been charged in connection with a pair of fires that destroyed two buildings and damaged two others, according to Burlington City police.
They were both charged with criminal mischief and criminal trespassing, but neither was charged with arson. Daniel Badecki, 18, of Audubon, was also charged with criminal mischief and criminal trespassing.
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Only 20-year-old Gabriel Vance, of Berlin, was charged with two counts of arson, as well as two counts of criminal mischief and two counts of trespassing.
They were arrested after a car that was used by the suspects in the fires was found in Gloucester Township, according to police. The fires had been set on April 26 and June 7, police said.
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During the investigation, police found video of four people entering a mansion property on East Park Boulevard, and returning once the fires were set, police said. A camera from a neighbor’s nearby home captured four people and a car on video, police said.
This is the car that was later found in Gloucester Township, based on a tip from a resident, police said.
During the interviews and further investigation, police said they determined that the four people depicted in the video were in fact the ones who started the fires.
Vance was lodged in Burlington County Jail pending a court appearance. The others were all released pending court appearances.
Gloucester Township police, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, the County of Burlington and New Jersey State fire marshal’s offices, Runnemede police, Philadelphia police, New Jersey State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) all assisted Burlington City police in the investigation.
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