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Armed Bank Robber, 42, Arrested Shortly After Heist: Police
A 42-year-old man from Cherry Hill was arrested minutes after he robbed a bank customer, authorities said.
The robbery occurred on Monday, May 23 at 9:24 a.m. at Citizens Bank, located at 2030 Route 70 West, Cherry Hill police said.
The suspect was armed with a gun.
Jose Cruz tried, but failed, to convince a teller to quickly give him $30,000 cash before turning to a bank customer trying to make a transaction, police said.
Cruz snatched a "large sum" of money from that unsuspecting customer, police said, before running off. He was caught by police a short time later near Marketplace Shopp…
Update: Union County Ex-Con Admits Robbing Bergen County Bank
An ex-con from Union County admitted robbing a Rutherford bank of $2,300 while wearing a New York Yankees cap that police later recovered from a nearby recycling bin, authorities said.
Seneca Wilson, 43, of Clark, entered the Kearny Bank (formerly Kearny Federal Savings) at Park and West Newall avenues at 4:12 p.m. April 7, 2021, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said.
He had on a dark t-shirt with a white logo, a windbreaker and sunglasses, as well as a neck gaiter over his face, a glove on his left hand and the baseball cap, witnesses said.
Wilson “handed the teller a note…
Career Criminal From Connecticut, 73, Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Jersey City Politico
A hardened ex-con from Connecticut admitted that he and a longtime criminal pal from Philadelphia stabbed a political consultant to death and then torched his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire attack.
George Bratsenis, 73, of Monroe, CT said he and his partner were paid to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics.
Bratsenis and the other killer, Bomani Africa, 61, were hired by onetime political operative Sean Caddle, who’d been an aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) a…
