Crime & Safety

Gloucester Township Police Seek Handicap Ramp Thief

Gloucester Township police are asking for the public's help to identify a person who stole handicap ramps from outside a home in Blackwood.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Gloucester Township police are asking for the public’s help to identify a person who stole handicap ramps from outside a home in the Blackwood section of the township.

The person exits what appears to be a white Ford Transit Van with unknown writing on the side after it parked in front of the Prospect Avenue home, police said.

The person then took the ramps into the back of the vehicle, and used them to ride their electric wheelchair onto a wheelchair trailer hitch on the back of their vehicle, police said. Below is a photo from the incident that has been published by Gloucester Township police.

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Anyone who has any information about this incident is asked to call the Gloucester Township Police Department at 856-228-4500, or the GTPD Anonymous Crime Tip Line: 856-842-5560.

To send an anonymous tip via text message to Gloucester Township Police, text the keyword TIP GLOTWPPD and your tip message to 888777. You may also click here to leave an anonymous tip: https://local.nixle.com/tip/alert/5170177.

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