{"id":543126,"date":"2026-03-24T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:17:08","slug":"prolific-burglary-suspect-charged-by-cape-may-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543126\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific burglary suspect charged by Cape May police"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Cape May police posted this photo of a burglary suspect on their Facebook page. Vito Anderson, of Pleasantville, has been charged with the crime.<\/p>\n

Cape May police have charged a suspected burglar who has already been implicated in dozens of residential and business break-ins in four New Jersey counties.<\/p>\n

Vito Anderson, 40, of Pleasantville, was charged with burglary, theft, possession of burglary tools and criminal mischief for allegedly breaking into a business on the 400 block of Washington Street on March 5, police announced in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Video surveillance was obtained of the suspect entering the business through a locked back door. The name of the business was not disclosed in the release.<\/p>\n

Police said Anderson used the same burglary tools to enter the building and to destroy the drawer of a cash register to steal the cash inside.<\/p>\n

Cape May police detectives identified Anderson as a suspect after an investigation revealed he had allegedly committed a series of similar burglaries in Brigantine, Pleasantville and Northfield in Atlantic County and Long Beach Township in Ocean County.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile comparing video surveillance, Anderson was found to use the same clothing to include unique sneakers, a \u2018Shystie\u2019 face covering and gloves to conceal his identity, which Anderson was still in possession of at the time of arrest,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n

Authorities have confirmed that Anderson is facing at least 73 charges in Atlantic, Cape May, Camden and Ocean counties. The allegations paint the picture of a prolific career burglar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Anderson was ordered held in jail during\u00a0a court appearance<\/a> last Friday in Atlantic County Superior Court.<\/p>\n

Prior to being held in custody in Atlantic County, Anderson had been released from jail in Camden County and has several cases pending in Cape May County\u2019s Mental Health Court.<\/p>\n

Atlantic County Superior Court Judge William Miller ordered Anderson to be held in jail to both protect the community and to get him help in Mental Health Court.<\/p>\n

Anderson\u2019s history includes life in foster care, abuse, mental illness and homelessness, according to details presented at his detention hearing on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone has a soul, they can see he\u2019s suffering,\u201d Miller said during the hearing. \u201cThe court is very mindful that a lot of this is probably coming from his mental health deficits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller said that Anderson\u2019s records would note that Mental Health Court needs to institute a more intensive treatment program for Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anderson is accused of burglarizing businesses and homes in Atlantic, Cape May, Camden and Ocean counties in a string of break-ins totaling thousands of dollars in cash and damages. There also are allegations of sexually gratifying himself in public.<\/p>\n

BreakingAC reporter Lynda Cohen contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape May police posted this photo of a burglary suspect on their Facebook page. Vito Anderson, of Pleasantville,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-543126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}