New Jersey Men Face Drug And Theft Charges After Target Incident In Montgomery Township

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, PA — Two New Jersey men are facing drug and theft charges after police in Montgomery Township were dispatched to a call of a shoplifting in progress at a local Target.

Steven Morris, of Union, N.J. and Joseph Valentim-Dixon, of Newark, N.J., were arrested on Dec. 12 and charged with felony accounts including manufacturing drugs with intent to deliver, after police found them to be in possession of around a pound of marijuana packaged for individual sale, according to media reports and court records.

The two were arrested after police officers were called to the Target store on the 100 block of Witchwood Road this past weekend for a report of a suspicious man walking around the electronics department, according to a story on the North Penn Now website.

The report says that store security personnel informed police that Morris, who had been inside the store at the time, had also been earlier captured on store surveillance footage stealing an iPad Pro from a Target store in Royersford.

Morris reportedly left the store without taking anything after he was confronted by employees, but police ultimately caught up to him and Valentim-Dixon in the parking lot of the Target, where the two were found to be in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Morris, in addition to the drug charges, is also facing counts of providing false identification to a police officer and receiving stolen property, according to a criminal docket sheet in the case.

Valentim-Dixon faces the felony drug count along with receiving stolen property, possessing a controlled substance by a person not registered, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

Court records show that both were preliminarily arraigned on Dec. 12 before Magisterial District Judge Suzan Leonard and that each is currently scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 21 before Magisterial District Judge Andrea Hudak Duffy.

Bail was set at $10,000 for both men.