Report: South Jersey Serial Burglar Denied Bid For Drug Program

WOODBURY — A Galloway Township man accused in 40 South Jersey commercial burglaries lost his bid in Gloucester County Superior Court recently for admission into a program for defendants with drug or alcohol problems.

Gloucester County Superior Court Judge John C. Eastlack Jr. told Dennis M. Niceler, 56, West White Horse Pike, to apply for the program in his home county of Atlantic, not in Gloucester, according to a report in The Press of Atlantic City.

Niceler was charged with third-degree burglary, fourth-degree theft by unlawful taking and fourth-degree criminal mischief for an alleged March 11, 2016, burglary at Terra Nova, a restaurant in Gloucester County, court documents say.

But Niceler is also facing charges related to 40 different offenses in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Monmouth and Ocean counties dating to 2009, the report says.

Niceler was a dedicated volunteer for the Egg Harbor City Historical Society. He managed the society's Facebook page and paperwork that accompanied donated artifacts, society President Mark Maxwell has said.

Niceler limped into court this week He was still nursing a Christmas Eve foot injury after Gloucester police arrested him after he allegedly jumped the roof of the Laurel Hill Plaza shopping center in Camden County with a bag containing a crow bar, hammer, wire cutters, screw drivers, gloves and a ski mask, the report states

Eastlack said the application must be made in Atlantic County. If he is admitted to the program, he said, his charges from Gloucester County could be consolidated there.

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