Police are asking for the public's help in finding the man who robbed a Roma Bank branch on Columbus Road last week.
Roma Bank in Mansfield MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP — Police are asking for the public’s help in finding the man who robbed a Roma Bank branch on Columbus Road last week.
The man walked into the branch at Homestead Plaza II at 5:45 p.m. Friday with a black semiautomatic handgun and demanded money, Mansfield Township Police said. He fled in a green sedan, possibly a Toyota Corolla, police said.
The suspect is described as a man with olive skin, between 5-foot-4 and 5-foot-7 and dressed in all black. He had a hooded sweatshirt, a ski mask and gloves, police said.
Lt. Eric Campbell said bank robberies are rare in the township.
“Not in our town, this is the first I can remember,” Campbell said yesterday.
The Roma Bank robbery is the second armed robbery in the township in 2013.
“We don’t get them much,” Campbell said.
The state police Uniform Crime Report lists only one armed robbery in the township between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30. It took place Sept. 11, when an attendant at the Valero gas station on Route 206 was assaulted and robbed of an undisclosed amount of money.
Three Mount Olive men — 19-year-old Nakesse Armstrong, Zahir Camillo, 20, and Jordan Walker, 20 — were arrested and charged in connection with the crime, according to the Mansfield police blotter.
Friday’s robbery was at least the second at a Roma branch in December.
A Camden man was arrested and charged with the Dec. 3 robbery of a Roma Bank branch in neighboring Florence, as well as robberies of four other banks in the area, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. He sometimes passed the bank teller a note threatening to use a firearm, but never displayed a weapon, the prosecutor’s office said.
Brandon Dickerson, 22, was arrested by Edgewater Park Police and charged with five counts of second-degree robbery, the prosecutor’s office said.
A spokesman for Roma Bank declined to comment about security at the branch.
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