Police: Woman Conspired with Juveniles to Break Car Windows in Pine Lake Park

A township woman faces multiple charges after she allegedly involved minors in a Pine Lake Park rock-throwing scheme. 

Heather McSherry, a 35-year-old woman who lives in Holly Oaks, was arrested and charged on Dec. 28, 2011, after she allegedly used juveniles — who were not named by because of their age — to throw landscape rocks through the windows of a car parked at a Pine Lake Park home, said Capt. Lisa Parker.

The residence had been targeted previously by McSherry on four separate occasions, according to an investigation by Detective Richard Mazza. 

"It was learned from the investigation that McSherry had been involved in all four occasions with four other 16-year-old suspects, and that she told them to provide false statements to the police," Parker said.

Parker said that surveillance video footage captured McSherry's juvenile occupants in the act of throwing rocks. Officer Joseph Fastige arrested McSherry without incident.

Three vehicles were damaged in the incidents to an estimated cost of over $1,300, Parker said.

McSherry was charged with conspiring with a juvenile to commit a crime, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, harassment and hindering her own apprehension, Parker said. She was taken to the Ocean County Jail in Toms River where bail was set at $25,000 with no 10 percent option. 

Two minors were charged with juvenile delinquency for conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and harassment, according to Parker. One of the juveniles faces the additional charged of hindering the apprehension of another. Their charges are pending action in juvenile court.

Pine Lake Park was hit with a string of rock throwing in March of 2011, . Two township residents face charges for their alleged involvement in those crimes.

Mazza said that these four most recent incidents are isolated and unrelated to those in March.