Paterson man who police say robbed Saddle Brook bank to buy heroin indicted - Cliffviewpilot.com
19 holdup at the Spencer Savings Bank in the Terra Mini Mall on Market Street were scouring area hotels when they found the getaway car — a four-door, gold 2000 Mazda Millenia — in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn off the Garden State Parkway in... In his car, police said, they found a key to a South Hackensack hotel, where they recovered approximately $1,500 in cash, along with 300 or so heroin bags that Police Chief Robert Kugler said Petrucelli bought with the rest of the booty. A witness earlier reported seeing Petrucelli — wearing a grey sweatshirt and dark shorts — run across the parking lot of the mini mall, get into a four-door, late-90s model gold-colored vehicle and drive off immediately after the robbery. Detectives from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification lifted a fingerprint matching Petrucelli’s from a demand note that he left behind, the chief said. The note said he had a gun and instructed the teller to put the cash into a bag that he’d brought, Kugler said at the time. The indictment returned yesterday charged Petrucelli with threatening “immediate bodily injury” to the female teller during a robbery in Saddle Brook, in addition to heroin and cocaine possession in South Hackensack. Source: cliffviewpilot.com
