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Phillip Jones was apprehended on Tuesday, March 8th,. and charged with first-degree robbery, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Brooklawn Police Chief Shamus Ellis.
Earlier in the day on March 8, officers responded to the Wells Fargo Bank on Crescent Boulevard in Brooklawn for a bank robbery.
An investigation revealed that Jones handed a bank teller a note in which he demanded money and made reference to having a gun, MacAulay and Ellis said.
Jones received an amount of cash and fled from the bank.
Gloucester City Police Department officers arrested Jones a short distance from the bank. He was in possession of approximately $3,000 in proceeds from the robbery, MacAulay and Ellis said.
Jones was processed on the robbery charge and was being held in the Camden County Correctional Facility pending a detention hearing.
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