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Augusto G. Perez (FBI PHOTOS)
Perez, 61, was believed to have fled to Florida with the $10,000 proceeds from the robbery.
However, a criminal complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Newark by the FBI says that two tipsters notified the bureau that Perez was living in the Sylvan Village apartment complex on 43rd Street.
One of them had seen surveillance photos of the Weehawken holduup (one is at left) on an unidentified online site, the complaint says. The other saw Perez’s picture in a newspaper.
It’s been a particularly active week relating to bank robberies for government authorities in New Jersey — both the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office — as well as for local police. Besides Perez’s arrest today, William R. Carberry, Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to robbing a TD Bank in Jersey City in June last year and attempting to rob a Chase Bank in Franklin.
This comes after Thursday’s shooting of a bank robber outside the Chase Bank on Union Avenue in Rutherford after he emerged with a hostage. He is at Hackensack Medical Center, recovering from two bullet wounds, under guard by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers.
A federal complaint made public on Friday says Perez entered the TD Bank at 4200 Park Avenue in Weehawken on Feb. 28 and pointed a handgun at a bank teller.
“This is a robbery,” it says he told the teller in Spanish. “Give me the money from the top and bottom [teller drawers].”
Perez then pointed the weapon at a second bank teller and a customer who was in the process of making a deposit, and ordered both of them to give him money as well, FBI Agent Douglas Man said.
U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman credited the FBI with making the case leading to the arrest.
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