OLD BRIDGE — A man originally arrested for firing a gun on an Old Bridge street now faces charges of stealing the weapon during a burglary and threatening a woman by putting the gun to her head. Trevor Bieniek, 19, is charged with aggravated assault, threatening to kill a person, theft of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm...
A family reported a .357 revolver was stolen from their home on Jeri Lane in Old Bridge. Police say that gun was later used by an Old Bridge man accused of threatening a woman at gunpoint and shooting the weapon on a township street. OLD BRIDGE — A man originally arrested for firing a gun on an Old Bridge street now faces charges of stealing the weapon during a burglary and threatening a woman by putting the gun to her head.
Trevor Bieniek, 19, is charged with aggravated assault, threatening to kill a person, theft of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm and burglary, police said. He is being held at the Middlesex County jail in North Brunswick on more than $100,000 bail.
Police first arrested Bieniek on Dec. 9 on charges he was firing a .357 revolver on Pine Street, authorities said. He was charged with possession of 27 tablets of oxycodone.
On Dec. 18, a family from Jeri Lane reported that while they were on vacation earlier in the month, someone entered their house and stole a safe containing a .357 revolver and more than $120,000 in cash and jewelry, police Capt. Arthur Carullo said.
Investigators subsequently received a report that Bieniek had threatened a woman with the gun shortly after the burglary, Carullo said. Police refused to give details about the woman, other than to say she was not involved in the burglary.
