Laqua Tucker has been in prison since May 2025. (N.J. Department of Corrections)
A Pleasantville man accused in multiple burglaries over three states was sentenced in his Atlantic County crimes last week.
Laqua Tucker, 21, already is serving a three-year prison sentence on burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary charges out of Cape May County, state Department of Corrections records show.
He was sentenced to another three years after previously pleading guilty to two counts of third-degree burglary for cases out of Absecon and Galloway Township, both from 2024. There is no term of parole ineligibility.
Tucker was connected to one crime by blood left at the scene and another by fingerprints, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
It appears he cut himself during a break-in at the Sun Petro gas station in Absecon on Jan. 2, 2024. Responding officers found the business' glass door shattered with droplets of blood
He also admitted to a May 30, 2024 break-in at the Tobacco Outlet in Galloway Township. In that case, the glass front door also was shattered, and the cash registers were left open. Fingerprints also were left behind.
Surveillance footage also showed Tucker using a rock and metal pole to break the glass and enter the business, according to the case.
Tucker and Devin Arnold of Galloway Township both were arrested June 14, 2024, in connection to dozens of burglaries spanning three states, including Pennsylvania and New York, police said at the time.
Arnold is not a co-defendant in Tucker's Atlantic County cases, BreakingAC confirmed.
Arnold is currently jailed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, records show. He was arrested in Toms River in April as a fugitive, and sent to Bucks County.
Tucker has been in the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Yardville, Mercer County, since this past May.
He previously was sentenced to 364 days in the Ocean County jail for cases there, and is set to be sentenced in Camden County on July 18, after pleading guilty to cases there in December.
Laquay Tucker's mugshot from Atlantic County Justice Facility
