Elmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup

UPDATE: A sharp-eyed Route 46 gas station attendant who’d just been robbed got a license plate number of the getaway car and Elmwood Park police arrested an ex-con from Clifton soon after.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE*

Jerry DeMarco

02/19/2014 3:06 p.m.

Nidal Nasser, 35, was arrested at his home, where a pellet gun also was seized, Elmwood Park Police Capt. Michael Foligno said.

Foligno said Nasser pointed the gun at the attendant just before 1 a.m. yesterday and fled with $160 in a Nissan Maximum owned by his mother.

Nasser — whose criminal history includes burglaries, weapons charges and an assault on a police officer — was being held on $50,000 in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery, theft and two weapons offenses, records show.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

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