DEAL -- Deal police said they arrested two men who took a taxi to burglarize a house in town and then refused to pay the driver when they drove back to an apartment in Asbury Park with the stolen goods. A taxi driver called authorities after Kenneth Burke, 46 from Asbury Park and Timothy Foote, 38 of Ocean Township, are accused of allegedly taking the car to a house and asking the driver to wait in the car, according to the Deal Police Department. Egan said they instructed the taxi driver to wait outside before they returned a short time later with a television set and some liquor bottles. The driver called police after he took the two to an apartment in Asbury Park and they did not pay their total. Burke and Foote are charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespassing and theft. They were taken to Monmouth County Correctional Institution and their bail was set at $20,000. The stolen goods were later returned to the homeowner, police said.
– Two alleged burglars essentially directed police to their apartment in New Jersey when they failed to pay their taxi driver, authorities say. Kenneth Burke, 46, and Timothy Foote, 38, took a taxi to a home in Deal on Friday, went inside, then emerged with a TV and liquor bottles, police tell the Philly Voice. The taxi driver then dropped the men at an apartment in Asbury Park, but they refused to pay, police say. When the driver alerted police, officers checked the home in Deal and found it had been burglarized, per NJ.com. Burke and Foote now face burglary, theft, and other charges, and are held on $20,000 bail.