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Indictments Filed Nov. 10

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By Vince Conti

COURT HOUSE – A Cape May County grand jury handed up indictments for the following individuals Nov. 10:
James A. Bozeman
According to police accounts, James Bozeman, 42, of Marmora left a 10-year-old child alone in a car while he went into a bar. He was arrested in Upper Township on July 17 when police checked on the youngster and then found Bozeman in the bar. A computer check found that Bozeman was also wanted on “several warrants.” The grand jury indicted Bozeman for endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree.
Glenn Blaylock
After midnight April 3, Wildwood police responded to a domestic violence call on Roberts Avenue. Glenn Blaylock, 54, was at the scene and arrested on charges of aggravated assault. Police allege that Blaylock attacked two individuals with a wooden baton. The victims, a man and a woman, suffered head and back injuries. The man was taken to the hospital for stitches to a head wound.
Police also maintain that after the assault, Blaylock went outside and used the baton to smash the man’s vehicle. The weapon was not recovered until the next day.
Blaylock reportedly told each victim he would kill them during the assaults.
Blaylock was indicted for two counts of aggravated assault in the second degree, making terroristic threats, two counts, third degree, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, third degree, possession of a weapon, fourth degree, and criminal mischief, fourth degree.
Blaylock was lodged at the county jail with bail set at $175,000 full cash.
Clifton Bryant
Clifton Bryant, of Court House, was indicted for perjury, third degree, false swearing, fourth degree, and forgery, third degree. Bryant allegedly posed as another individual at a municipal court proceeding and even entered into a plea agreement as the false individual.
Michael Breslin, Christopher McCullen, Harry Angstadt, Sean Cunningham, Spencer Walker
On Aug. 10, a woman on East Delaware Parkway, Villas, ran from her home to a neighbor’s house. She called police dispatch about an armed home invasion in which she and a friend had been assaulted. When police arrived they detained Michael Breslin, 26, of Lindenwold, and Christopher McCullen, 25, of Villas.
Investigation led police to three other individuals who also allegedly entered the home as part of the invasion. The three arrested were Harry Angstadt, 24, of Erma, Sean P. Cunningham, 27, of Cold Spring, and Spencer Walker.
All were indicted for robbery in the first degree, conspiracy and burglary in the second degree, and aggravated assault in the third degree.
Breslin and McCullen were charged with possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes and unlawful possession of a weapon, a black BB-gun handgun. The two were additionally indicted on certain person changes in the second degree.
Breslin had been convicted of aggravated assault in Atlantic County and McCullen of robbery in Cape May County. Those convictions made it a felony for them to possess weapons.
Larry Hall, Kelly A. Costanzo
On Sept.29, the Cape May County Grand Jury indicted Larry Hall, 39, and Kelly Costanzo, 36, on multiple charges of theft and conspiracy related to property stolen from beachgoers on the Fourth of July   in North Wildwood. The married couple had their three children with them, ages 12 to 6.
This week the two were indicted again in relation to the same incident on charges of conspiracy and theft in the third degree, with the additional charge of endangering the welfare of a child, third degree.
Jesus Hernandez-Castro
Jesus Hernandez-Castro, 35, was arrested in Wildwood Aug. 4 for aggravated assault. Hernandez-Castro had been previously convicted of endangering the welfare of a child in 2004.
In the Aug. 4 incident, police allege that Hernandez-Castro assaulted two individuals while in possession of a knife. They also allege that he gave false information to officers investigating the incident.
Hernandez-Castro was indicted for aggravated assault in the second degree and again in the third degree. 
He was also indicted for possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes and hindering apprehension, both third degree, along with the certain person charge, fourth degree, related to the weapon possession and his previous conviction.
Jacquelin D Jones-Giddens, Elizabeth Maldonado, Elizabeth Wiggins
In three separate indictments, the grand jury continued to bring charges against Middle Township shoplifters.
Jacquelin Jones-Giddens was indicted for theft from a Rio Grande department store of property valued in excess of $500, a third degree crime. She was arrested on June 16 in Rio Grande.
Elizabeth Maldonado, 41, of Wildwood, was indicted for shoplifting, third degree, for taking merchandise valued in excess of $500 from a Rio Grande store May 6. Just a little under three months later, Maldonado was arrested again for shoplifting, that time in Wildwood.
Elizabeth Wiggins, 36, of Rio Grande, was indicted for shoplifting, third degree. The incident took place in September and involved merchandise valued in excess of $500 taken from the liquor section of a Court House store.
Michael Kelly
On Sept. 11 Michael Kelly, 41, of Shunpike Road, allegedly unlawfully entered a Route 9 restaurant with intent to commit a crime. Investigation led police to a suspect and he was arrested that evening. The grand jury handed up an indictment for burglary, third degree.
Joseph McCarraher
On Oct. 16, Joseph McCarraher, 27, of Villas, out on bail for an incident that involved an aggravated assault charge, failed to appear for an official proceeding. A warrant was issued and McCarraher was again arrested. He was indicted this week for bail jumping, a third degree offense.
Jonathan Vandoren
On the morning of Sept. 15, Lower Township Police received a call from a security company concerning a possible burglary in progress at a home on Eaglewood Road. Officers responded immediately and quickly developed leads to a suspect.
Jonathan Vandoren, 21, from North Cape May, was located in the area and arrested. At the time of his arrest, police said Vandoren was also in possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
Vandoren was indicted for theft, fencing, and burglary, all in the third degree. Police say that Vandoren also damaged property in excess of $500 and this led to an additional indictment charge of criminal mischief, fourth degree. 
The above individuals are only charged with the offenses and are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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