UPDATE. Absecon Police seek help identifying suspects in armed robbery at Sun Petro Gas Station (Suspect Photos attached)
The Absecon Police Department continues to investigate an armed robbery that occurred on March 014, 2014 at approximately 03:52 hours at the Sun Petro Gas Station - 101 Absecon Boulevard. Surveillance footage captured two adult male suspects (one black, one white or light skinned) approach the attendant on foot. Both suspects were believed to be approximately twenty to twenty five years of age with thin to medium build. The suspect wearing black boots, jeans, a blue hooded sweatshirt and flat brim baseball cap produced a handgun and forcefully removed several hundred dollars in cash and the victim’s cellular telephone. The suspects then ran south on Shore Road toward Ohio Avenue. A witness reported that the accused subjects entered a dark colored sedan that had been parked beneath the train bridge. The vehicle reportedly fled south on South Shore Road at a high rate of speed.
Anyone with additional information is urged to call the Absecon Police Department Detective Bureau at (609) 641-0667, or Crime Stoppers at (609) 652-1234.
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Address/Location
Absecon Police Department
500 N. Mill Road
Absecon, NJ 08201
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 609-641-0667
Det. C. Leigh Gadd, Jr.
Criminal Investigation Div.
609-641-0667