{"id":8597,"date":"2016-05-30T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2016-05-30T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:09:21","slug":"cops-brick-teen-robbed-7-eleven-with-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/05\/cops-brick-teen-robbed-7-eleven-with-handgun\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: Brick Teen Robbed 7-Eleven With Handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicholas Destefano (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick police have arrested a township man\u00a0for the armed robbery of a convenience store in the early morning hours Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the 7-Eleven store at 667 Mantoloking Road at 2:07 a.m. Sunday, Sgt. Neal Pedersen said.\u00a0Sgt. Peter Thomas and Ptl. Jeffrey Melia arrived on scene and were told\u00a0a\u00a0suspect reportedly displayed a black handgun and demanded money from the register.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The store cashier complied and handed over approximately $120 in cash, after which the suspect fled the store towards McKay Drive, Pedersen said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Responding Police units were told\u00a0the suspect was described as a white male, 20 to 25 years old, with dark hair, over six feet tall, 200 to 225 pounds wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt. After a K9 search of the area did not produce any leads,\u00a0<\/span>Detectives Greg Mularkey and Tara Schinder began going over surveillance footage and identified the suspect in the case as\u00a0<\/span>Nicholas Destefano, 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith this information, officers were able to locate him and arrest him in the mid-afternoon the same day without incident,\u201d said Pedersen.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Pedersen, at the time he was arrested,\u00a0Destefano had in his possession a 9mm Sig Sauer handgun, as well as the clothing that matched the description given by the store clerk. Officers also found a small quantity of heroin and drug paraphernalia, Pedersen said.<\/p>\n

Destefano was charged with robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, possession of heroin and possession of drug\u00a0paraphernalia. He was being lodged at the Ocean County Jail in lieu of $150,000 cash bail.<\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing to determine how Destefano obtained the handgun, Pedersen said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brick police have arrested a township man\u00a0for the armed robbery of a convenience store in the early morning hours Sunday. Police were called to the 7-Eleven store at 667 Mantoloking Road at 2:07 a.m. Sunday, Sgt. Neal Pedersen said.\u00a0Sgt. Peter Thomas and Ptl. Jeffrey Melia arrived on scene and were told\u00a0a\u00a0suspect reportedly displayed a black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8598,"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":true,"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":[2208,328,147,2207],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-7-eleven","tag-armed-robbery","tag-drug-possession","tag-nicholas-destefano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Destefano.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","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=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}