Crime & Safety
Rite Aid Offers up to $5,000 for Information in Haddonfield Robbery
Detectives believe the suspect was also involved in a similar robbery in Gloucester County.
Rite Aid is offering up to $5,000 for information concerning an armed robbery of the store on 715 Haddon Avenue in Haddonfield on Tuesday. The reward will be based on the information provided.
Additionally, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office has released surveillance photos of the suspect who allegedly committed the robbery before carjacking a priest on Tuesday.
Those photos are attached to this post.
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The suspect allegedly allegedly entered the pharmacy around 12:10 p.m., jumped over the counter and threatened the employee with a handgun, demanding Adderall and oxycodone.
He escaped with an unknown amount of Adderall into the parking lot where he allegedly pulled a priest out of a parked car and stole the car.
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The suspect allegedly abandoned the stolen car within one block and continued to flee the area.
The Camden County Sherriff’s K-9 unit was involved in the ensuing search, but the suspect was not found.
The suspect is described as a white man who stands approximately 6’0’’ tall and weighs about 200 pounds. He was wearing a long yellow rain jacket, yellow reflective vest, hooded sweatshirt, black mask and white hardhat. The suspect was carrying an orange traffic cone during the robbery.
Before the robbery, the suspect was allegedly seen measuring trees ear the store as well as the outside of the Rite Aid building with a tape measure.
Detectives believe this may be the same suspect who previously robbed a Rite Aid in Logan Township, Gloucester County.
A surveillance photo previously released in the Logan Township incident shows a suspect dressed in similar attire.
Haddonfield Police Detectives and the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office are conducting the investigation.
Anyone with information about the robbery is urged to call Haddonfield Police Detectives at 856-429-3000, or Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective McCalla at 856-225-8569.
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