http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2014/12/undercover_cops_follow_suspected_serial_burglar_for_3_hours_until_he_breaks_into_house_police_say.html
By Anthony G. Attrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
EDISON – A township man suspected of a series of home burglaries in Middlesex and Somerset counties was arrested after undercover detectives observed him entering and leaving the scene of a sixth burglarized home, according to police.
Undercover detectives from Edison followed Brian T. Arline, 36, for three hours Dec. 10 through several communities before he stopped outside a home in Franklin Township and went inside, police said.
Arline later emerged, got into his car and drove off.
“When officers checked the residence they saw the front door had been forced open and they later learned jewelry had been stolen,” Edison police stated in a press release.
Franklin Township police arrested the man moments later, police said. Officers recovered the stolen valuables.
Arline is being held at the Middlesex County jail on $250,000 bail.
He is charged with three counts of burglary in Edison, two counts of burglary in Franklin Township, and one count of attempted burglary in North Brunswick.
Additional charges are pending from New Brunswick and Highland Park.
Following a series of residential burglaries with similar patterns over the past two months, Edison police led a task force to solve the crimes that included detectives from Highland Park, New Brunswick and North Brunswick.
