It must be the economy---criminals are picking on Cinnaminson again.
Watch out for a black Ford Explorer sports utility vehicle, and someone who exits and then puts on a motorcycle helmet. This man targeted my dry cleaners---and they are nice, hard working people.
From the Burlington County Times...
A man wearing a motorcycle helmet and wielding a metal pipe robbed a dry cleaning business this morning, and police suspect the robbery is connected to a holdup earlier today at a gas station in Burlington Township.
According to investigators, the Burlington Township robbery occurred at around 4:30 a.m. at the Shell gas station on Mount Holly Road. Less than four hours later, Jordan's Cleaners in the Mainline Shopping Center off Route 130 in Cinnaminson also was robbed by a man wearing a motorcycle helmet, police said.
"We believe the two are related," Cinnaminson Detective Sgt. William Covert said this afternoon.
He said the dry cleaners robbery occurred at 8:16 a.m. while the business was first opening. A man wearing a red and black motorcycle helmet entered the business and brandished a metal pipe while demanding money. He took an undisclosed amount of cash then escaped in a black Ford Explorer sports utility vehicle, Covert said.
During the Burlington Township robbery, a man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet entered the convenience store at the gas station, brandished an unknown type of weapon and demanded money. The lone employee complied and the man took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled in what was described as a dark green GMC Jimmy SUV, police said.
No injuries were reported in either robbery.
Burlington Township investigators believe the robber's getaway vehicle may have been purchased recently because it had a car dealership advertisement placard in place of a license plate. The vehicle was last seen traveling west toward Willingboro on Sunset Road, police said.
Investigators said the two holdups yesterday are not suspected to be related to a string of two bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery in the area involving lone robbers wearing motorcycle helmets. Those robberies occurred at banks in Maple Shade on Sept. 28, Medford on Oct. 7 and Cherry Hill on Oct. 20.
Covert and Burlington Township police detective Brandon Roberson said investigators so far have found no connection between the bank robberies and the robberies at the gas station and dry cleaners.
"We're aware of the bank jobs, but there's no indication at this time that they're related," Roberson said.
Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call Burlington Township police at (609) 386-2019 or Cinnaminson police at (856) 829-6667.
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