By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
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| Law enforcement officials are looking for this man who they say robbed a Main Street bank in Bradley Beach Tuesday. |
Investigators from the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office are looking for a man who robbed the Central Jersey Bank on Main Street in Bradley Beach Tuesday morning.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bradley Beach Police Department are also involved in the investigation.
Police Chief Leonard Guida said the robbery was committed by an adult, white male at about 10:30 a.m.
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The man entered the bank and handed a note to the teller demanding money.
No weapon was seen, Guida said.
Guida said the last bank robbery in the borough was five to 10 years ago at the bank that is now a Bank of America on Main Street.
The perpetrator was arrested not long after the robbery, he said of that incident.
Guida said investigators are looking for connections in several recent bank robberies in our area.
A statement from the prosecutors office said the note the robber presented to the teller demanded an undisclosed amount of money.
The note also threatened the use of a gun, but no weapon was actually displayed, the statement said.
The man was given an undetermined amount of money before promptly leaving the bank.
He is described as between 40 and 50 years old and about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall.
He was wearing a light colored T-shirt, dark sweat pants with vertical stripes down the legs and a green baseball cap.
The incident was recorded on the banks security cameras.
Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin said, Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Bradley Beach Police Department are working diligently in conjunction with Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to solve this crime. We are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man depicted in the photos which were captured by the bank’s security system.
Valentin urged individuals with information pertaining to this bank robbery to contact Det. Jeffrey Wilbert of the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office at 1-800- 533-7443 and/or Det. Terry Browning of the Bradley Beach Police Department at 732-775-6900 and/or the Red Bank field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at 732-741-0006.
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