Friday, December 7, 2012
Police respond to a Sicklerville Wawa Thursday morning on a report of a robbery, only to find out there was no crime—other than several committed by the alleged victim.
A Gloucester County man is in trouble with the law after he allegedly reported he was the victim of an armed robbery as cover for the fact he had actually blown his paycheck on an illegal purchase of prescription drugs. Officers from the Gloucester Township and Winslow Township police departments responded to the Wawa at 511 Berlin-Cross Keys Road, in Gloucester Township's Sicklerville section, at 2:47 p.m. Thursday on a report of a robbery. The officers immediately began searching the area for the suspect, as described by the alleged victim, who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint of $200. A Gloucester Township Police K-9 team and detectives were also dispatched to the scene to aid in the investigation, according to Lt. Jason Gittens. After…
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Wawa
511 Cross Keys Rd, Sicklerville, NJ
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Three suspects use a stolen debit card to pay for an order at the Wawa store at Chews Landing and Somerdale roads.
Gloucester Township Police are following up on several tips received after posting to YouTube on Monday surveillance video from the Wawa store at Chews Landing and Somerdale roads that captured three suspects using a stolen debit card in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The crime occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at approximately 9:35 a.m. According to police, two male suspects and a female suspect used the debit card, which was in a wallet that had been stolen from a car parked in the Village of Chews Landing development hours earlier, to pay for an order at the Wawa. Police described one male suspect as white and in his late teens or early 20s. He was wearing a striped, gray, hooded sweatshirt, gray shorts, and black sneakers. The second male …
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Wawa
1115 Black Horse Pike, Glendora, NJ
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
The woman uses a debit card a Blenheim Wawa customer had dropped in the parking lot.
Police are seeking the public's help identifying a woman who fraudulently used another's debit card to make a purchase at the Blenheim Wawa Monday evening. Gloucester Township Police Crime Stoppers released surveillance images of the suspect Thursday afternoon. The police report indicates the suspect found the debit card in the parking lot outside the Wawa store, located at Black Horse Pike and Almonesson Road, at around 7:19 p.m. Monday. She then proceeded to use the debit card to make a purchase inside the store. When the customer returned to the store to ask about the debit card, the suspect pulled the hood to her jacket over her head and left the store. Police described the suspect as a white female with dark hair. She was wearing her …
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Wawa
800 N Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, NJ
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Gloucester Township Police release video of a man and woman who stole cigarettes from the Blenheim Wawa.
A woman who asked a clerk at the Blenheim Wawa for directions to the Atlantic City Expressway in late August was merely creating a diversion so the man she was traveling with could steal cigarettes, according to police. Gloucester Township Police on Thursday released surveillance video and still images of the crime, which occurred at around 2 a.m. on Aug. 23, in the hopes someone will be able to identify the suspects. Police described the female suspect as a white with long, red hair. She was wearing a yellow shirt, black pants and sandals. The male suspect is described as black and was wearing a gray Nike T-shirt, black pants, dark and orange sneakers, and a dark Nike hat. The suspects left the store together in a U-Haul truck. If you …
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Wawa
800 N Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, NJ
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Police believe the suspect may be the same person responsible for similar strong-arm robberies in Runnemede and Washington Township on Monday.
Police have released surveillance images of a man wanted for robbing a woman of her purse outside of the Berlin-Cross Keys Road Wawa store this week. Gloucester Township Police describe the suspect as a black male who is 6 feet to 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs about 190 pounds. The suspect was clean-shaven, had a close-cropped haircut and was wearing a large, white T-shirt and dark-colored shorts at the time of the robbery, which occurred outside of the Sicklerville store at approximately 7:45 a.m. Monday, according to police. He demanded and then ripped the purse from beneath the victim's arm, according to a police statement. Police added that the suspect left the area in a medium-green or blue, late 1990s or early 2000s Jeep Grand …
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Wawa
511 Cross Keys Rd, Sicklerville, NJ
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Police say a Sicklerville teen got into an altercation at a Wawa with customers he believed were writing down his car's license plate number.
An 18-year-old Sicklerville man is facing a robbery charge, police say, after he got into an altercation with fellow Wawa customers he believed were attempting to help the store report his alleged shoplifting to authorities. Gloucester Township Police were summoned to the Wawa at 2700 Sicklerville Road, in Erial, at 12:04 p.m. Thursday for a report of a disturbance in the parking lot, according to Sgt. Kevin Thyne. The responding officers were told by witnesses that a customer who had fled the store just prior to their arrival got into an altercation with fellow customers he felt were writing down his car's license plate number. Wawa employees had confronted the suspect after allegedly spotting him concealing items in the store. Before …
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2700 Sicklerville Rd, Sicklerville, NJ
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A woman was robbed outside of the Blenheim Wawa last Friday.
Police have released a composite sketch and surveillance images of a man wanted in connection with the strong-arm robbery of a woman outside of the Black Horse Pike Wawa convenience store in the township's Blenheim section. The robbery occurred at around 2:35 a.m Friday, Dec. 9, according to police. The victim was pushed to the ground as she approached her vehicle outside of the Wawa store located at 800 N. Black Horse Pike, police said. The suspect fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police describe the suspect as a dark-skinned, black male who is in his late 30s or early 40s, 6 feet to 6 feet, 3 inches tall, and weighs more than 200 pounds, with razor bumps on his face. The man was wearing a dark-blue jacket, blue jeans, a …
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800 N Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, NJ
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Police released surveillance video that shows a woman grab two cartons of cigarettes and run out of a Blackwood Wawa.
Police on Wednesday released a surveillance video showing a woman fleeing from a Blackwood Wawa with two cartons of cigarettes for which she had not paid. The theft occurred at the Wawa at Little Gloucester and Erial roads on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at around 2:30 p.m., police said. The video shows the woman grabbed two cartons of Newport cigarettes off the counter immediately after she appeared to fake an attempt to swipe a credit or debit card through the store's card-reading machine. The suspect then ran from the store and, according to police, fled in a black SUV. Police have described the suspect as a thin, white female who appears to be in her 20s. Anyone with information about the theft is asked to contact police at 856-228-4500, call the…
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Wawa Food Markets
1301 Little Gloucester Rd, Clementon, NJ
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Escape to Philly’s Waterfront this weekend to kick off the Wawa "Welcome America!" celebration and to savor local flavors.
Food, music and the city—a perfect escape to celebrate the first official weekend of summer. Taste of Philadelphia begins today at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. The three-day event features food samples from local restaurants, award-winning food trucks and lots of music. While there might be a cheesesteak or two, expect to sample the best of the best that Philadelphia's food scene has to offer. And while you can bring the kids, this event is so much more fun without a stroller to push or a face to wipe (except if it is your own!). Admission is free—food samples start at a buck, making it Frugal!)—so you can go for a long time or for a little. Fabulous Philadelphia restaurants like the Jamaican Jerk Hut (a personal fave), Tiffin, …
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Police have arrested a man they say stole a Ryder rental truck from a Black Horse Pike Wawa early Tuesday.
A Clementon Borough man has been charged with stealing a rental truck from a Wawa store in the Blenheim section of the township Tuesday morning and nearly striking police officers with it after they pulled him over on his home street this morning. Gloucester Township Police detectives developed information around 10:30 a.m. today that led to the identification of 22-year-old Christopher Craig as Tuesday morning's Ryder rental-truck thief, according to Deputy Chief David Harkins. Joined by Clementon Police officers, the detectives began conducting surveillance on the truck—a Freightliner Sprinter that a Ryder dealer had rented to the Courier-Post—after spotting it parked in the driveway at Craig's West Atlantic Avenue home. Police allege …
OCNJ
7:26 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
"...cover for the fact he had actually blown his paycheck on an illegal purchase of prescription drugs." Prescription pills will be the ruin of society. Pills now then soon bigger drugs like heroin, breaking into cars, robbing banks etc to supply their habits being a burden to society. This guy is on a road to ruin. more ›