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Police: Lotto Player Turned Robber, 53, Threatens To Torch North Jersey Convenience Store
An Essex County lottery player threatened to burn down a North Jersey convenience store in order to carry out a robbery, authorities charged.
Elvis Holder, 53, asked a cashier to play lottery numbers for him at DJH News Stand on La France Avenue around 8 p.m. on Feb. 22, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said.
Holder, of East Orange, started pouring an unknown substance from a Nestle water bottle onto the counter, took out a lighter and told the cashier to “give him everything in the register” while threatening to ignite the substance, DeMaio said.
Holder escaped with the cas…
