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Bank Robbery

Monday, April 22, 2013

Local Police Release Photos of Alleged Wells Fargo Bank Robber

Caldwell Police reveal surveillance video of suspect who attempted to rob West Orange bank before robbing Caldwell bank on Thursday.

Caldwell police Monday released surveillance images of a man who allegedly robbed a bank in Caldwell just one hour after he attempted to rob a West Orange bank late Thursday afternoon, officials said. According to officials in the Newark FBI office, the man entered the Wells Fargo Bank at 412 Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange at about 5 p.m. on April 18 and demanded money before fleeing without any cash.  About an hour later, police believe the same man robbed a PNC Bank at 423 Bloomfield Ave. in Caldwell. Police have not released the amount of money taken. Officials said, the man was wearing the same shoes and hat for both robberies. The man is described as a clean-shaven black man, in his late 20s, about 5-foot-6 inches to 5-foot-8 …

Thursday, December 6, 2012

FBI Seeks Help Identifying TD Bank Robber

FBI releases photos of Monday's robbery at TD Bank.

  The FBI is seeking the public’s help identifying the man who robbed a TD Bank on Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange on Monday. The man, described by the FBI as approximately 5’10” tall and 210 lbs., with a large build, salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee, approached a bank teller at approximately 1:15 p.m., brandished a silver semi-automatic handgun and demanded money be placed into a blue bag, officials said. The man was described as wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, a dark sweater, blue jeans and dark shoes, according to the FBI. After getting the money, officials said the man fled on foot and was seen walking north on Pleasant Valley Way. The FBI released several photos of the man on Wednesday.  West Orange police said it is unknown …

daniel Diggs-pinto

3:54 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012

CATCH HIM NOW DO UR BEST I NOW U WILL   more ›

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Belleville Bank Robbed, Election, Sandy Top Essex News

Homicide in West Orange, Newark weapon, drug arrest, Belleville church steeple braced.

Authorities are investigating a bank robbery Tuesday at the Valley National Bank on Bloomfield Avenue. Just before 1 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect entered the bank at 22 Bloomfield Ave. and passed a note to the teller reading "Have gun. Give me money," according to Deputy Chief Mark Minichini of the Belleville Police Department. The suspect made off with the contents of the teller's drawer and fled north on foot on Belmont Avenue. Exact proceeds have not been determined, Minichini said. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the death of a West Orange woman on Oct. 31. Lelia Whatley, 22, was found unresponsive at her Washington Street residence early last Wednesday and was pronounced dead at the scene, said Katherine Carter, …

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Convicted Bank Robber Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

Newark man went on a crime spree for two months in the summer of 2010, said the U.S. Attorney's office.

A Newark man convicted of robbing eight banks in a two-month period was sentenced to eight years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Nathaniel Barreto, 30, of Newark, previously pleaded guilty to one bank robbery and admitted robbing seven others and attempting to rob a ninth. The banks he robbed included branches in Bloomfield and West Orange and banks in Bergen, Hunterdon, Middlesex and Morris counties. The robberies took place between the end of June and mid-August 2010. Barreto was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Trenton by U.S. District Court Judge Freda L. Wolfson. Authorities said Barreto’s bank robbery spree came to an end following the Aug. 17, 2010, robbery,when a witness saw Barreto get into a car …

Dan

10:35 am on Friday, September 28, 2012

To Be Honest I Don't Know Why He Had To Do That , I Understand He was Under A Lot Of Stress, I He had No Luck In Finding A Good Job , House On Fire & His Father Did not Had Much To Live , He Has A Wife & Three Kids , His Mother Is A Church Pastor , He Used To Play Music And Worship The Lord In The Church Sad It Had To Come To This , I know Him , His A Good Person , If You Would Had Known Him You …   more ›

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