Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught
Accused Boonton Bank Robber Caught UPDATE: A Boonton man was captured and charged with robbing a local Wells Fargo bank eight days ago. Andrew T. Merceruio, 37, was being held in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, charged with bank robbery and theft, authorities said. Merceruio, a native of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was captured on surveillance video on Nov. 27, when he robbed the Wells Fargo branch on Wootton Street, they said. No weapon was displayed, nor threats made, when the robber demanded money and made off with $2,000, responders said. Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, Acting Chief of…
Accused Boonton Bank Robber Captured Accused Boonton Bank Robber Captured
Accused Boonton Bank Robber Captured UPDATE: A Boonton man was captured and charged with robbing a local Wells Fargo bank eight days ago. Andrew T. Merceruio, 37, was being held in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown, charged with bank robbery and theft, authorities said. Merceruio, a native of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was captured on surveillance video on Nov. 27, when he robbed the Wells Fargo branch on Wootton Street, they said. No weapon was displayed, nor threats made, when the robber demanded money and made off with $2,000, responders said. Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, Acting Chief o…
UPDATE: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Charged In Pequannock Holdup UPDATE: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Charged In Pequannock Holdup
Update: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Charged In Pequannock Holdup As expected, authorities charged a Little Falls man arrested following a Wayne bank robbery with an earlier holdup last month in Pequannock. Philip N. McGrantham, 69, made a bogus 911 call of a man with a gun in the parking lot of a Route 23 Target “as a ruse to divert the attention of law enforcement” while he robbed the Wells Fargo bank up the road last Thursday, authorities said Tuesday. Wayne detectives -- with help from the FBI and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office – captured McGrantham on Monday at the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Avenue as he returned home. He was driving a …
GOTCHA! Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup GOTCHA! Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup
Gotcha! Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup Local police captured a Little Falls man who they said robbed a Wayne bank hours earlier -- and is suspected in another bank job last Thursday in Pequannock. With help from the FBI and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office, Wayne detectives captured 69-year-old Philip Mcgrantham at the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Avenue as he returned home in a rented Nissan Altima that a law enforcement source told Daily Voice was used in Monday morning's holdup of a TD Bank branch on Valley Avenue. Mcgrantham, who previously lived in Paterson and Jersey City, was charged with first-degree robbery and…
UPDATE: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup UPDATE: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup
Update: Accused Wayne Bank Robber, 69, Captured In Little Falls, Suspected In Pequannock Holdup Local police captured a Little Falls man who they said robbed a Wayne bank hours earlier -- and is suspected in another bank job last Thursday in Pequannock. With help from the FBI and the Passaic County Sheriff's Office, Wayne detectives captured 69-year-old Philip Mcgrantham at the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Avenue as he returned home in a rented Nissan Altima that a law enforcement source told Daily Voice was used in Monday morning's holdup of a TD Bank branch on Valley Avenue. Mcgrantham, who previously lived in Paterson and Jersey City, was charged with first-degree robbery and…
Route 23 Bank Robbed Route 23 Bank Robbed
Route 23 Bank Robbed A robber with what witnesses said appeared to be a fake beard robbed a Pequannock bank on Thursday. No weapon was shown in the 10:45 a.m. holdup at the Wells Fargo branch on southbound Route 23 in the township's Pompton Plains section, authorities said. ** UPDATE: Authorities are seeking a man with a possibly-fake beard who they say robbed a Route 23 Morris County bank Thursday. ** The robber, who witnesses said had a painted beard, demanded money from the teller before fleeing with the undisclosed amount that was handed over, Pequannock police said. Around the same time, police converged…
ICYMI: $20K Down Payment Grants Available For Home Buyers In Essex County ICYMI: $20K Down Payment Grants Available For Home Buyers In Essex County
ICYMI: $20K Down Payment Grants Available For Home Buyers In Essex County Wells Fargo has set aside $5 million to help create more than 180 new homeowners in Essex County, the bank said in a statement.  The NeighborhoodLIFT program will offer $20,000 grants to help with down payments. Qualified applicants will be required to complete a home buyer education course approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  A free event is planned for Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel, 1000 Spring St., Elizabeth. Interested home buyers who want to apply for a down payment assistance grant must register by clicking…
Woman Steals ID Of Northern Westchester Resident To Make Nearly $1.5K In Purchases, Police Say Woman Steals ID Of Northern Westchester Resident To Make Nearly $1.5K In Purchases, Police Say
Woman Steals ID Of Northern Westchester Resident To Make Nearly $1.5K In Purchases, Police Say A Long Island woman who made nearly $1,500 in fraudulent charges after stealing the identity of a Northern Westchester woman has been charged with identity theft, police say. Yorktown Police say Stephanie Fletcher, 35, of West Hempstead turned herself into police headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 10. According to police, a Yorktown resident reported noticing multiple fraudulent charges on her Wells Fargo Debit Card on Nov. 15, 2018. Further investigation revealed that Fletcher fraudulently used the card to make purchases totaling $1,459.23 between July and Nov. of 2018, police say. Fletcher …
Suspect Apprehended After Returning To Scene Of Armed Bank Robbery In Westchester, Police Say Suspect Apprehended After Returning To Scene Of Armed Bank Robbery In Westchester, Police Say
Suspect Apprehended After Returning To Scene Of Armed Bank Robbery In Westchester, Police Say A 51-year-old Westchester man was taken into police custody after returning to the scene of the crime of an alleged bank robbery, police said. Investigators from the Yonkers Police Department responded to Wells Fargo on South Broadway in Yonkers at approximately 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, where there was a report of an armed robbery. Police said that officers met with staff at the bank, who stated that a Hispanic man dressed in hospital scrubs and no shoes approached a teller with a knife, demanding money. He was handed more than $2,700 in cash and proceeded to flee the area, promptin…
Former Teller Sentenced For Participating In Violent Bank Robbery In Westchester Former Teller Sentenced For Participating In Violent Bank Robbery In Westchester
Former Teller Sentenced For Participating In Violent Bank Robbery In Westchester A former bank teller in Westchester has been sentenced for her participation in an armed robbery that netted more than $300,000 and a vacation to Aruba. Virginia Blanco has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch on Odel Avenue in Yonkers in October 2013 that included several rounds being fired during the exchange. She must also pay $303,500 in restitution. Blanco had been found guilty by a jury of conspiracy, bank robbery, and a firearm offense in July last year following a four-day trial in White Plains federal court, U.S. At…
Parsippany Pastor Suing For False Arrest In Check Scam: Report Parsippany Pastor Suing For False Arrest In Check Scam: Report
Parsippany Pastor Suing For False Arrest In Check Scam: Report The pastor of United Methodist Chruch in Parsippany is suing the State Police and Wells Fargo bank after he was mistakenly charged with depositing forged checks last year, according to a published report.  Four checks totaling $6,000 were forged using checks issued by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The checks were deposited at a Wells Fargo bank branch also used by the Rev. Jeffrey Edwards, 63, that morning.  When Wells Fargo discovered the fake transactions, it shared ATM photos of Edwards with State Police, who posted the pictures on its Facebook page, according to Edwa…
Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, NYPD Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, NYPD
Authorities: ID Thief Who Owed $18,776 In Child Support Captured By Glen Rock Detective, Nypd An identity thief who owed $18,776 in unpaid child support tried obtaining credit cards by posing as a Glen Rock woman’s son but was quickly tracked down by a borough detective. It began last summer when the woman’s bank notified her that someone tried to get a duplicate debit card on a joint account she had with her son, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The thief used a New Jersey driver’s license in her son’s name, the chief said. He then tried to open a PC Richards credit card in the son’s name in New York, Ackermann said. There was a breach on the son’s American Express Card, …