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Marcus J. Hunt, 25, fits the description of the robber who took about $100 from an attendant at the Shell station at the corner of Maywood Avenue and Passaic Street in Maywood at knifepoint yesterday afternoon, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight.
SEE: Maywood gas station attendant robbed at knifepoint
A customer at the E&S station on Green Street in Hackensack chased Hunt following today’s 2:20 p.m. holdup but lost him after the suspect took off in a car he’d parked a block or so away, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The customer called the Hackensack police desk from his cellphone, describing Hunt and his car, and responding units spotted the vehicle on Lodi Street near South State Street, Salcedo said.
The station attendant later identified Hunt, of Hackensack, as the man who moments earlier pressed an unknown object against his stomach as he sat in his booth.
When he didn’t move fast enough, the attendant said, Hunt tried reaching into his pocket.
But the pump jockey said he began shouting, drawing attention, and the robber fled empty-handed — with the good Samaritan not far behind.
Hunt, whose rap sheet includes assault on a police officer and weapons charges, was charged with robbery and weapons possession and ordered held on $100,000 bail.
City police expected to take him to the Bergen County Jail tonight — once Maywood detectives had a chance to interview him.
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