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Fake Salesman Carjacks Montco Homeowner At Gunpoint, Police Say
Lower Merion police say a carjacker took a township resident hostage at gunpoint, and that the suspect is armed, dangerous, and still at large.
It started at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 20, the department said. The victim pulled into his driveway on the 200 block of Wiltshire Road in Penn Wynne section to find the suspect waiting in his driveway, police wrote.
Posing as a salesman for a solar power company, the suspect approached the victim and "made conversation," but the victim said he was not interested and headed for the door, authorities continued.
That's when police say…
Police Justified In Shooting Jersey Shore Drugstore Robber Who Stabbed Officer, Grand Jury Says
UPDATE: Police were justified in shooting an ex-con who’d stabbed a Keansburg lieutenant with a large knife while holding a pharmacy worker hostage during a robbery, a state grand jury ruled.
James Sutton, 55, of Keansburg, was holding up the Keansburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street when officers responding to multiple 911 calls arrived shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2022, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said.
Sutton had “demanded oxycodone, and was holding a pharmacy employee at knifepoint,” Platkin said.
Two officers deployed their Tasers with no effect, t…
