Friday, November 28, 2008

Man arrested in connection with Cinnaminson Robberies

Looks like we're safe for now---until someone else starts this nonsense...

From the Burlington County Times of November 28, 2008

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-11282008-1629056.html

CINNAMINSON — A Willingboro man was arrested yesterday afternoon on suspicion that he robbed a local sandwich shop and a convenience store in Edgewater Park, police said.

David L. Brown, 39, of Ember Lane was taken into custody at 2:06 p.m. after a Cinnaminson officer on patrol on Route 130 saw him driving a black Ford Explorer that matched the descriptions of a getaway vehicle used in robberies at the Subway Sandwich Shop on Route 130 in Cinnaminson and the 7-Eleven on Cooper Street in Edgewater Park.

Both robberies were committed Wednesday, and involved lone robbers who threatened clerks with weapons. No serious injuries were reported.

Cinnaminson police said Brown also was positively identified as the Subway robber from surveillance video footage. Brown later confessed to both robberies at Cinnaminson police headquarters, police said.

Brown was charged with armed robbery and theft in connection with the Subway holdup, and he was lodged in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $200,000 bail, police said.

Charges from the 7-Eleven robbery are pending, police said.

Cinnaminson police said an investigation also is ongoing to determine if Brown is also responsible for other robberies in the county, including Monday morning robberies at a Cinnaminson dry cleaners and at a gas station in Burlington Township.

In both those holdups, a lone man wearing a motorcycle helmet threatened employees and then escaped in a dark colored SUV.

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