West Deptford Police Blotter

West Deptford Police Crack 2012 Heritage's Robbery

18-year-old Branden M. Potter and three juveniles, all from Woodbury, were charged in the incident.

A group of teenagers who allegedly used an Airsoft gun to rob the Delaware Street Heritage's store last summer were tracked down last week and arrested by West Deptford police.  Three juveniles aged 15, 16, and 17, and one adult, Branden M. Potter, 18, all of Woodbury, were charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. The 15-year-old was additionally charged with possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, theft, and with making terroristic threats. The weapon—determined to be a replica pellet gun—was not recovered. Two of the juveniles were placed in the Lakeland juvenile detention facility; one was put on home detention. Potter’s bail was set at $50,000 and posted through bail bonds. He was released …

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Gas Station Gunman, Accomplice on the Loose

Two men stole an unspecified amount of cash from the Lukoil gas station during an armed robbery on Wednesday morning.

West Deptford Police are searching for two suspects who robbed the Lukoil gas station at gunpoint on Wednesday morning, holding up the attendant and fleeing with cash. The suspects, two men, pulled up to the gas station at Red Bank Avenue and Crown Point Road just before 9:20 a.m. The driver initiated a conversation with the gas station attendant. While still seated in the car, the passenger then pulled out a black handgun and pointed it at the attendant, demanding that he turn over all of his money. The employee handed over an unspecified amount of cash to the suspects, who drove off, traveling north on Crown Point Road toward West Deptford High School. They fled in what is believed to be a silver, two-door Dodge Stratus. The driver of …

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Armed Robber Hits Heritage’s on Delaware Street

A man in all black hits the store, stealing cash and cigarettes at gunpoint.

A man dressed head-to-toe in black robbed the Heritage’s on Delaware Street at gunpoint Thursday night, West Deptford police Chief Craig Mangano said. The unidentified man walked into the convenience store just before 10 p.m., brandishing a black handgun, Mangano said, threatened an employee and demanded cash and cigarettes. The traumatized employee was unable to give a description of the man beyond what he was wearing, Mangano said, which included a black ski mask, black jacket, black jeans, black shoes and black gloves. After stealing an unspecified amount of cash and cigarettes, the robber took off east down Delaware Street, toward Woodbury, Mangano said. One of the department’s K-9 units was brought in to try to track the man, but that…

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'Dreadlocked' Gunman Robs Haddon Township Dollar Tree

Eyewitnesses say the man was wearing a dreadlocked wig that he discarded in his escape. No one was harmed.

About 30 minutes before closing time Monday night, a man disguised in a dreadlocked wig stole nearly $1,000 from the Haddon Township Dollar Tree at gunpoint, then fled in a maroon sedan. Nobody was harmed, but the incident stunned a pair of young clerks because they’ve seen the man in the store before. “It seems he’s been targeting us,” said Joe, 24, a Haddon Township native, who asked to be identified only by his first name. “We’re all hyped up.” Another employee was working in the front of the shop when it happened. He noticed a man in his mid-20s or early 30s, with elaborately bobby-pinned dreadlocks. That employee had seen the man before, and for some reason, tonight it made him uneasy. He wasn’t alone in his suspicions. “An old lady …

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