The girlfriend of one of the four men arrested last week in connection with a burglary ring targeting affluent neighborhoods in New Jersey is also faces charges in the scheme, authorities say.
Janay Cole, 26, was charged with several crimes about a week after police announced the arrest of her boyfriend, Jamelle Singletary, in connection with a string of more than 30 break-ins at homes across Bergen, Morris and Somerset counties, police say. In the burglaries, suspects got away with jewelry, cash and other valuables.
Authorities say that Cole would allegedly pick out homes that Singletary and fellow suspects Lawal Erskine and Jamal Sermon would allegedly later burglarize.
Working with the NYPD, New Jersey detectives learned that the alleged burglars would often take the stolen property to a man in Astoria, Queens, who paid for the valuables. A search warrant executed at the man's home turned up stolen goods matched to burglaries in New Jersey.
Police were also able to connect the three accused burglars to several New Jersey break-ins after investigators allegedly saw them throwing out items in a dumpster and later found them to be valuables stolen from the New Jersey homes.
Cole, Singletary, Erskine and Sermon, all of Teaneck, New Jersey, and David Tadjiev of Astoria, Queens, face conspiracy to commit residential burglary and theft charges.
It wasn't immediately clear if they had attorneys.
