Following a brief automobile pursuit in Egg Harbor Township on Thursday morning, police stated that two adolescents were taken into custody and charged with car theft in Northfield on Wednesday.
Police from Egg Harbor Township and Absecon reported that they saw the car on Thursday at 7:37 a.m. at an Absecon McDonald’s parking lot. Authorities reported that after attempting to halt the vehicle, the driver left the parking lot and drove quickly and recklessly, prompting the police to terminate their brief pursuit of the vehicle.
Later, it was said that the vehicle was abandoned after striking a power post on Delilah Road. According to witnesses, the driver and passengers fled the scene on foot, according to the authorities.
A 13-year-old Atlantic City resident who was thought to be a passenger in the car was taken into custody by Egg Harbor Township police and a Galloway Township K-9 unit. With the assistance of the New Jersey State Police, another passenger, a 17-year-old from Pleasantville, was apprehended after being seen strolling eastward on the westbound shoulder of the Atlantic City Expressway. The police claimed there was no incident or harm when the two adolescents were brought into custody.
After they were reportedly discovered in possession of stolen goods from those occurrences, the two adolescents are thought to have been involved in more car burglaries in the Longport and Egg Harbor Township regions.
The 13-year-old was handed over to Northfield police, where he is anticipated to face more charges following his arrest for fleeing officers, receiving stolen items, theft, and driving infractions. He’s being housed in a juvenile correctional center.
The elderly traveler was placed in the Home Electronic Detention System for observation after being accused of receiving stolen items and theft, according to the police.
On Friday afternoon, the minor suspects’ attorneys were not immediately accessible.
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In Atlantic County, according to state court authorities, a Hudson County man will be incarcerated in a local jail on allegations that he stole three banks, two of which were located in South Jersey.
Thomas J. Ingram, 37, of Bayonne, will remain in the Atlantic County jail pending his trial, as ordered by Superior Court Judge Patricia Wild on Thursday, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts. For allegedly stealing banks in Absecon and Northfield, Ingram was taken into custody last week.
An affidavit of probable cause also charges Ingram with robbing a third bank in Springfield, Union County, on October 10. After the heist, he was taken into custody in Bayonne, Springfield police said on October 18.
On Thursday, it was unknown if Ingram had a representative speaking on his behalf.
Ingram will remain at the Atlantic County jail until he is ordered to return to North Jersey, according to Springfield police last week. On Thursday, the agency could not be reached for comment right away.
Within an hour of the Springfield heist, detectives were able to identify Ingram’s Volvo vehicle, according to the police. Later, the car was seized.
Locally, Absecon police made the announcement of the arrest on October 18 but provided no other details on his whereabouts at the time of his capture.
According to the police, on September 14th, Ingram stole from the Parke Bank on Tilton Road in Northfield, and on September 15th, he stole from the First National Bank in Absecon.
Both robberies resulted in no injuries.
One of the two affidavits in the prosecution claims that Ingram approached a bank teller in the Absecon robbery with the phrase “10K no alarm” scrawled on a deposit sheet. The affidavit claims that when he instructed the teller, “Give me the money, and no one gets hurt,” the worker gave him a little over $2,000 in cash, which Ingram placed in a black bag.
The affidavit claims that Ingram fled on foot, dashed down a nearby alley, and made his way to a parking lot where his car was before heading west on Route 30.
According to the affidavit, CCTV evidence connected Ingram to the robberies that occurred in Northfield and Absecon. His car was connected to the crime in Springfield as well.
In New Castle County, Del., Corporal Amina Ali of the Delaware State Police stated, “We want the public to be very vigilant anytime they go to the bank because they’re targeting bank customers in these bank parking lots.”
That is precisely what FOX 29 was informed last week when reports of a bank client robbery spree in Philadelphia and Cheltenham initially surfaced.
The same crew is said to be in the same vehicle, which was reported stolen in Philadelphia on October 10. Customers are allegedly being robbed by them as they enter and exit banks. There have already been two robberies in New Castle: one on Friday and one one week ago.
“These suspects are believed to have ties to the tri-state area. So, anyone in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, just be extra cautious until these suspects are taken into custody,” said Corporal Ali.
The identical silver Honda Accord with the Pennsylvania license plate MHF-6959 was seen on surveillance in Cheltenham on October 11th, the same day it was used to steal a woman of $70,000 in cash outside of TD Bank on Cheltenham Avenue. They also managed to escape with her credit cards, keys, and jewelry valued at over $30,000.
Authorities suspect that on Friday, between 12:30 and 1:50 in the afternoon, three separate Delaware banks had their patrons pulled over by the same group of men in the same automobile in less than eighty minutes.
“The suspects targeted these victims as they exited the bank and they used a handgun to point at these victims, to make them afraid and hand over their money,” said Corporal Ali. “There are four to five males wearing dark clothes and masks. There’s suspected to be four to five of them in the stolen vehicle carrying these crimes out. It’s not four or five of these coming out of the vehicle at the same time. For these robberies, it’s just two or three of them coming out. We say before you come out, it is glass, so it’s a great opportunity for to look out and see what the parking lot looks like before you come out.”
