Shoplifting Suspect Pointed Knife At Bloomfield Store Owner: PD

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield police are searching for a shoplifting suspect after he allegedly brandished a knife at a local store owner last week, authorities announced Thursday.

According to the Bloomfield Police Department, officers responded to Purple Beauty Supply at 311 Glenwood Avenue on Dec. 1 after getting a report about a shoplifting incident.

The store manager told officers that a man entered the business and tried to take hair products without paying for them. When the store owner allegedly recognized the man from a previous shoplifting incident and tried to confront him, the man took out a “switchblade-type knife” and pointed it at him, police said.

After a brief struggle, the man fled north on Glenwood Avenue, police said.

Police said the suspect was wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt, a gray jacket, black and white sneakers, a gray hat, a black ski mask, a blue drawstring backpack, and a gold-colored ring on the middle finger of his left hand. Authorities released a surveillance photo of the man, which can be seen below.

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