Man Threatens Bloomfield Supermarket Manager With Knife: Police

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A shoplifting incident at a supermarket in Bloomfield turned into a robbery when a man threatened the store manager with a box cutter last week, authorities said Friday.

According to the Bloomfield Police Department, officers responded to the Stop & Shop on Franklin Street on Aug. 4 after getting a report about a man with a knife on the premises.

The store manager told the officers that a man later identified as Justin Anderson, 29, of Newark, concealed $337 in various health and beauty products and left the store without paying. When the manager confronted Anderson in the store’s vestibule, he allegedly brandished a box cutter and threatened to stab him, police said.

Officers located Anderson nearby and arrested him. He was transported to police headquarters and processed, authorities said.

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