Man Tried To Steal $800 In Liquor, Injured Clerk, Shrewsbury Police Say

SHREWSBURY, NJ -- A Brooklyn man who apparently has expensive tastes in liquor has been charged with robbery after he allegedly got into an altercation with a store clerk while trying to shoplift wine and scotch worth more than $800 from the Spirits Unlimited, according to a criminal complaint.

Anatoliy Mitrofanov, 53, of Brooklyn, is charged with robbery by inflicting bodily harm on a store clerk at Spirits Unlimited in Shrewsbury on Feb. 27, according to the criminal complaint filed with the Monmouth County court system.

Mitrofanov is accused of trying to walk out of the store with a bottle of Robert Young cabernet valued at $104.99 and a bottle of Laphroaig scotch valued at $724.99, and then inflicting bodily harm on the clerk who tried to stop him from leaving the store without paying for them, according to the complaint.

He is charged with robbery, shoplifting and theft, according to the complaint.

His bail was set at $45,000, with a 10 percent option, and he remained at the Monmouth County Correctional Institute in Freehold Township as of Wednesday, according to jail records.