WEST DEPTFORD TWP.

—On March 17, Deborah D. Hinch, 39, of Brooklawn, was arrested on Crown Point Road and charged with possession of a prescription legend drug. She was served with a complaint summons and released.

— On March 18,  a juvenile was charged with possession of marijuana on Kings Highway, served with a summons and released.

— Kenneth W. Bailey, 57, of Mantua, was charged on March 18 with driving while intoxicated on Route 45. He was served with a summons and released.

The Gloucester County Nature Club will meet on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 3 Lenape Trail, Wenonah, NJ, 08090. Lenape Trail is located just off of Mantua Avenue at Woodbury-Glassboro Road.

Join Susan Puder, author of New Jersey Birds and Beyond and president of the Southern Ocean Birding Group, as she presents a Bird Identification Workshop. This PowerPoint program will help you learn techniques to identify birds, using size, shape, colors and patterns, and behavior. It includes information about field guides, habitats, body language, and other helpful tools you can use to identify the over 440 birds that can be seen in New Jersey.

Puder, an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, is a dedicated environmentalist who supports the preservation of open lands and wildlife. After the presentation, she will be selling and signing copies of her book.

Meetings are scheduled for the second Thursday of the month, September through June, and are free and open to the public.  For more information, please visit www.gcnatureclub.org

PITMAN — The Camden County Prosector’s Office High Tech Crime Unit and Pitman police arrested Kenneth Herrera, 54, at his Pitman home Monday.

Herrera, an employee of the Pitman school district, was charged with possession of child pornography and endangering the welfare of children, police said.
The arrest came after a month-long investigation by the CCPO. Further investigation is being done by Pitman police.

Herrera was served with complaints and released, said police.

Police Chief Robert Zimmerman said there was no evidence to suggest any compromise of school or student safety.

WESTVILLE

— At 3:16 p.m. March 20, a vehicle stop on West Olive Street resulted in the arrest of a passenger, Lamar Walden,  for outstanding warrants. Walden was additionally charged with possession of marijuana.

— At 2:27 p.m. March 21, a motor vehicle stop on Route 13- resulted in driver Bruce A. Ahrens being charge with driving while intoxicated.

— At 8:50 p.m. March 21, a motor vehicle stop on Route 130 resulted in the arrest of a passenger, Quamaine O. Miller, who was charged with hindering his own apprehension for allegedly providing officers false information.

— At 2:14 a.m. March 22, a vehicle stop on Delsea Drive resulted in driver Dayla M. Leadum being charged with possession of methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, or Molly. Two passengers, Amanda M. Pike and Latasha M. Cooper, were arrested on outstanding warrants.

— At 1:10 p.m. March 22, a vehicle stop on Route 45 resulted in the arrest of driver Jeffrey J. Laskey Jr. on an outstanding warrant from Camden. Laskey was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. He was committed to the Camden County Jail.

— At 3:21 p.m. March 22, a neighbor complaint at the Dorann Manor Apartments on Broadway resulted in Elizabeth Chern being charge with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.

— At 10:21 p.m. March 22, a vehicle stop on Route 45 resulted in the arrest of a passenger, Saketa Willis, on outstanding warrants from Atlantic City. She was additionally charged with hindering her own apprehension.

WOODBURY — A 25-year-old Pitman man pleaded guilty Monday to operating a meth lab in a shed behind his parents’ Columbia Avenue home.

Ari Lleshi also admitted he was in possession of a hallucinogenic drug when he was stopped in a vehicle in Mantua in March 2014. He acknowledged the two 2014 offenses violated the probation he’d been given in 2011 for aggravated assault and burglary charges, authorities said.

The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office is again offering defensive driving classes that can save county residents money on their motor vehicle insurance premiums.

The initial class will be Tuesday, April 28 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in University Center Room 901 at Rowan College of Gloucester County, 1400 Tanyard Rd., Deptford Township.  The second half of the course is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the same location. Attendance on both nights is required.

WOODBURY — The U.S. Police Canine Association will use the Gloucester County Jail Tuesday for K=9 training.

The USPCA is the oldest and largest police dog association in the country and offers training and certification to a national standard for working police canine teams.

The jail has been empty since the county started sending inmates to the Salem County Jail.

The training will begin at 9 a.m.

My Closest Companion sometimes has trouble watching movies and TV shows with me.

These days, we’re spending more time together, which is terrific. When I was working for the newspaper, I was going to be at ungodly hours and waking up at ungodlier hours. We hardly saw each other some days.

So now that I am retired from all that, I go to bed a bit later and get up a bit later. Which means we can actually spend some time together after dinner.

But I AM tough to watch TV with, I admit. We both notice lacks of continuity. One shot shows two guys with their hats on, then comes back to them and their hats are off, but in the same scene, comes back a third time and their hats are on again. Or something is in an actor’s left hand, then his right, then his left. Or a newspaper is on the table. Then it’s not. Then it is.

WOODBURY — Andrew Kramer, 24, of Deptford, was sentenced Friday to spend 10 years in state prison for an armed home invasion robbery of a 69-year-old Mantua woman.

Kramer tied her up, took her bank card, forced her to give him her PIN, then told her “if it’s not right, I’ll come back and kill you,” the woman testified. “It makes you a little paranoid.”

Kramer also took the engagement ring her late husband had given her in 1964.