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Suspected bank robber hits Bank of America Police believe suspect is involved in three other robberies in past month BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer
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A bank surveillance camera picked up the suspect (bottom left) in the bank robbery on March 14 at the Bank of America on Parsonage Road. |
| EDISON - An undisclosed amount of money was stolen from a Bank of America branch on Parsonage Road in Edison on Wednesday, March 14, around 9:20 in the morning, according to Lt. Joseph Shannon of the Edison Police Department.
A white male, described as 50 to 65 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall with a slim build and salt-and-pepper hair, entered the Bank of America, approached a female teller and demanded money, Shannon said.
The man, wearing a dark tan zipper jacket, a light dress shirt, dress pants and black shoes, demanded that the money be put in a bag. When the teller complied, the man exited the bank and traveled across the street to the nearby Menlo Park Mall parking structure and to his car, a beige or champagne-colored four-door car similar to a Nissan Altima. He left the parking structure and made a left onto Route 1 toward Woodbridge Township, Shannon said.
Shannon said that this man was most notably wearing a tan driver's cap and appeared to be well groomed.
Shannon said that it was common for people in this position to park their getaway cars a distance away from the bank, but this man had to walk a couple hundred yards to the Menlo Park Mall parking structure.
The robbery is one of a string of bank robberies in the area in recent months, Shannon said, and police believe this man was involved in at least three other bank robberies in the area.
Police believe a man fitting this description robbed a Bank of America in Woodbridge on Amboy Avenue last month as well as a Provident Bank in Fords. On Feb. 23, Edison police believe this man was involved in the robbery of a Provident Bank on Amboy Avenue in Edison as well.
Shannon does not believe this robbery is connected with the robbery of a Bank of America over the weekend in South Brunswick that resulted in gunfire and one teller being treated for a bullet fragment to the face.
Anyone with information about this bank robbery is urged to call Edison Detective Thomas Duffy at (732) 248-7539.
No one was hurt in this bank robbery and the suspect was not believed to have a weapon.
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