{"id":3335,"date":"2015-02-05T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:22:04","slug":"police-search-for-robber-who-pulled-gun-at-toms-river-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/police-search-for-robber-who-pulled-gun-at-toms-river-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Searching For Robber Who Pulled Gun At Toms River Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3336\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in a Feb. 5 bank robbery pulls a gun on a bank teller in Toms River. (Photo: TRPD)\" width=\"629\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15.jpg 629w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15-400x246.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15-500x308.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15-600x369.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in a Feb. 5 bank robbery pulls a gun on a bank teller in Toms River. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River police are on the hunt for a bank robber who they say pulled a gun on a teller at a PNC Bank branch in Toms River.<\/p>\n<p>The robber, described as a white male wearing a long, black coat, entered the PNC Bank located at 9 Wrangle Brook Drive at about 10:05 a.m. Thursday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3337\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-vehicle-2-5-15.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3337\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-vehicle-2-5-15-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"The vehicle used in a bank robbery in Toms River, Feb. 5, 2015. (Photo: TRPD)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-vehicle-2-5-15-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-vehicle-2-5-15-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The vehicle used in a bank robbery in Toms River, Feb. 5, 2015. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He then displayed a black semiautomatic handgun and demanded money, according to police spokesman Ralph Stocco.\u00a0 After taking an undetermined amount of cash he fled out of the main doors, entered a small, black sports utility vehicle with light window tint and fled east on Route 37.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle had out of state license plates, Stocco said.<\/p>\n<p>The man suspected is being described as standing between 5\u20197\u201d and 5\u20198\u201d tall, with black hair and wearing a button down blue shirt under his coat. He is also wearing a large ring on his left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should contact Detective Thomas Grosse at 732-349-0150, extension 1263. Grosse is being assisted by The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department Crime Scene Unit in his investigation, Stocco said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/police-search-for-robber-who-pulled-gun-at-toms-river-bank\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River police are on the hunt for a bank robber who they say pulled a gun on a teller at a PNC Bank branch in Toms River. The robber, described as a white male wearing a long, black coat, entered the PNC Bank located at 9 Wrangle Brook Drive at about 10:05 a.m. Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[478,24,936,100],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-bank-robbery","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-pnc-bank","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bank-robbery-2-5-15.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-RN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}