Man FBI says is East Rutherford bank robber caught in Virginia

A man who scribbled a demand note on a scrap from a Spanish-language newspaper and made off with $3,500 from an East Rutherford bank was stopped and arrested by police in Virginia, the FBI told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Jerry DeMarco

01/12/2011 7:08 p.m.

From the East Rutherford holdup Jan. 3
(COURTESY FBI/NEWARK FIELD OFFICE)

Thanks to alert citizens, East Rutherford police entered the license plate number of the getaway car into the national crime data base. A routine check by their counterparts in Arlington early Tuesday turned up a match: Marcelino Martinez Jr., 41, of Bloomfield, FBI Special Agent Bryan Travers said..

His family had reported Martinez missing before he turned up in Arlington, where police ran the plate number and got a hit. He is being returned to New Jersey to face bank robbery charges.

A clear shot of a man the FBI said is Martinez was captured by surveillance cameras at the Capital One Bank on Route 17 in East Rutherford on Jan. 3 as he passed the note, scribbled onto a piece of the “El Vocero” newspaper.

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