Police Beat All items in Police Beat are taken from police department records. All suspects are presumed innocent until found guilty in court. Sayreville Police arrested and charged Thomas J. Skarzynski, 39, of Sayreville, with driving while intoxicated on Washington Road at 7:06 p.m. Dec. 12. Police arrested and charged Christine Mamelko, 42, of Piscataway, with driving while intoxicated on Oak Street at 12:03 a.m. Saturday. Police arrested and charged Maile J. McTonic, 38, of Perth Amboy, with driving while intoxicated on Route 35 at 10:38 p.m. Friday. Theft was reported at a residence on Washington Road at 6:56 p.m. Sunday. The 82-year-old resident had assorted jewelry stolen from her home. She told police that she heard a doorbell ring at approximately 2 p.m. She went to the back door and opened it slowly, when a white female suspect pushed the door open and entered the residence. The suspect pulled craft items and dolls out of her black handbag in an attempt to make a sale. A half-hour later, the suspect left. Later, the victim noticed a broken lock on the jewelry box in the bedroom. A pearl ring, a watch, a gold pendent and a black pearl necklace were stolen. Criminal mischief was reported at the Wawa on Washington Road at 3:48 a.m. Dec. 17. A white male suspect approached the victim’s vehicle and began striking it with a crow bar. The suspect smashed out the driver’s-side front window, as well as the passenger side of the windshield. The window of the passenger side was also damaged. The suspect wore a red hat and a Polo shirt. He left the scene in a red vehicle, possibly a Honda Civic. Both victims had minor cuts on their faces, but refused medical treatment. Criminal mischief was reported at a residence on Canal Street at 2:59 p.m. Dec. 17. Markings in spray paint were found on the white fence facing Memorial Drive sometime after 7 a.m. the day before. Theft was reported at a residence on Standiford Avenue at 8 a.m. Sunday. The homeowner told police that a wooden reindeer was stolen from the front yard sometime the prior night. Also, someone dumped a 5-gallon bucket of weights and a box of magazines on the property. Police arrested and charged three juveniles, all 13 years old, with criminal mischief on Martin’s Lane at 7:16 p.m. Sunday. Patrolmen Brian Braile and Jason Mader, of the plain-clothes street crimes unit, arrested the suspects while on patrol in an unmarked car in the area of Green Valley Way near Washington Road and Main Street. The officers observed two juveniles standing on the sidewalk, while the third suspect was in the alley between two buildings on Washington Road. Mader found freshly painted graffiti on the wall and police recovered three cans of spray paint. The suspects were processed and released to their parents without incident. The juveniles are believed to have vandalized several locations in the borough, including Krauszer’s, a vehicle behind the Senior Center, the Step Inn Ballroom, the post office on Main Street and a residence on Washington Road. Theft was reported at a residence on Dolan Street at 8:17 a.m. Monday. Christmas decorations were stolen from a residence sometime between 4 a.m. Dec. 15 and 7 a.m. Dec. 17, including a wooden snowman, a wooden Santa and a ceramic snowman. Criminal mischief was reported on two trailers parked on Main Street. The graffiti was marked on the trailers over the weekend sometime between 8 p.m. Friday and 1:35 p.m. Monday. A motor vehicle was damaged off Winding Wood Drive at 7:25 a.m. Friday. The owner of the 1989 Honda told police that the car was parked in the rear parking lot of the apartment building when the driver’s-side window was smashed and the rear hatchback was opened between 7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 7 a.m. Dec. 15. Nothing was reported missing from the vehicle. Police arrested and charged Karolina Debek, 22, of South Amboy, with driving while intoxicated on the northbound side of Route 9 at 11:28 p.m. Dec. 14. Criminal mischief was reported on Embroidery Street at 5:14 p.m. Monday. The resident told police that the electrical cords that connect to two reindeer decorations outside his home were cut sometime between midnight and 4 p.m. Monday. Police arrested and charged Christian Engle, 40, of Mount Holly, and Cody Laferriere, 20, of Landing, with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the parking lot of the Starland Ballroom at around 10 p.m. Saturday. Patrolmen Jason Mader and Brian Braile arrested the two men, who were in separate vehicles, and recovered LSD and marijuana. Both suspects were transported to the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick.