Crime & Safety

WATCH: South Jersey Cop, Son Wrestle, Stop CVS Robbery Suspect

The pair ended up stopping a robbery allegedly involving a Gloucester Township man. Watch the video below.

Sgt. Daniel Murray and his son, Bryan, went to a CVS in South Jersey on Monday night to buy some odds and ends. They ended up stopping a robbery allegedly involving a Gloucester Township man.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. when the pair were checking out and saw a masked man running toward the store’s front door. The suspect, 27-year-old Matthew Donahue of Gloucester Township, had forced pharmacists at the Runnemede store to give him about $11,000 in OxyContin prescription pills at knife point, according to NBC10.

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Murray grabbed Donahue before he could get to the door, and Bryan jumped in and the two wrestled with the suspect. Donahue now faces of robbery, aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a weapon, NBC10 said.

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