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Woman Faces Multiple Burglary Charges For Incidents in Holiday City, Toms River

Grand jury indicts woman already facing purse-snatching charge

A Toms River woman already indicted on a purse-snatching charge was indicted last week for numerous burglaries, primarily in Holiday City.

Ashley M. Massa of Toms River was indicted on four counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of third-degree theft and two counts of third-degree attempted burglary, in Toms River and Berkeley, between Jan. 18 and April 30.

Berkeley Township detectives arrested Massa at her grandmother's house in Holiday City and charged her with committing numerous burglaries in the area, back in spring of this year.

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Massa was a person of interest in the burglaries since January and was suspected in two that occurred on the morning of April 1, Detective Joseph Robertazzi said previously.

Massa was taken to police headquarters where she was interviewed at length about the burglaries.  According to police at the time, she admitted to the Porlamar Court and Eve Place burglaries, and other burglaries that occurred on Barbados Drive South, Oranjestad Street, Leeward Court, as well as a residential burglary on North Gateway in Toms River, Robertazzi said.

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She is being held in the Ocean County Jail on $50,000 bail, with no 10 percent option.

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