DNA Helps Nab Armed Home Invader: Evesham PD
A 62-year-old Bellmawr resident was arrested and charged on Tuesday, June 17 with committing an armed home invasion in Evesham Township, all thanks to DNA testing, authorities said.
On Thursday, Feb. 27 at 9:36 p.m., officers responded to a residence on Dana Road and discovered an unknown suspect, later identified as Edwin Dillard, had entered a home, armed with a boxcutter knife, and attempted to rob a husband and wife, Evesham police said.
Dillard began the assault as the husband was retrieving trash cans from the curb, police said. Dillard then attempted to restrain them with rope, polic…
Good Samaritan Run Over After Intervening In Armed Woodbridge Robbery, Police Say
A man who tried to help a woman being robbed in Virginia was beaten, robbed, and then run over by a car in a brutal early morning attack, police said.
Officers responded shortly before 5:30 a.m. on Monday, June 16, to the 2000 block of Daniel Stuart Square in Woodbridge for a reported assault, according to the Prince William County Police Department.
The victim, a 26-year-old man, told police he saw several men approach a woman he knew and “demand her property.”
When the man intervened, the suspects “assaulted him and brandished a firearm before taking his property,” police said.
As the m…
Man Admits Stealing Car With Victim's Mother Inside, Hitting Her In Chester: Here's His Fate
A man who stole a car with an elderly woman still inside and struck her daughter with the vehicle during a harrowing Orange County carjacking has pleaded guilty and will serve time in state prison, prosecutors said.
Edward Keegan, age 34, of Chester, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, June 11, in Orange County Court to third-degree robbery, a felony, in connection with the violent incident that took place on February 21 outside Liquor King in the Chester Mall at 78 Brookside Ave., Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced on Friday, June 13.
Prosecutors say Keegan jump…
Man Demands Narcotics In Bethpage CVS Robbery, Arrested Nearly A Year Later: Police
A man walked into a CVS pharmacy, demanded drugs, and fled with stolen items in Bethpage — but he didn’t get far for long, police announced on Thursday, June 12.
Charles Harry, 28, of Wheatley Heights, was arrested after a nearly year-long investigation into a robbery on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, according to the Nassau County Police Department’s Major Case Squad.
Harry allegedly stormed into the CVS at 308 Broadway around 9:10 a.m. and forced his way into the employees-only pharmacy area, where he demanded narcotics from workers. Detectives say he grabbed multiple items before running from …
Two Teens Robbed Montclair Woman Walking Dog At Gunpoint: Police
Two Jersey City teens were arrested and charged on Monday, June 9 with robbing a woman at gunpoint while she was walking her dog in Montclair, authorities said.
On Sunday, June 1 at 12:45 p.m., a woman was walking her dog on Willow Street when she was stopped by Wesley Garcia, 18, and Kirvin De La Rosa, 19, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II and Montclair Police Chief Todd M. Conforti said.
Garcia, De La Rosa and a third suspect were wearing ski masks and demanded the woman's jewelry at gunpoint, authorities said. The suspects were driving a stolen Acura TLX that was later recover…
