Third Charged For Robbing Nassau Bloomingdales: Police

Nassau County Police arrested a Freeport man early Sunday and charged him in connection with a burglary from October.

According to police, Raphael Julian, 24, of Nassau Road, Freeport, was one of three people that worked together to rob a Garden City Bloomingdale's. The other two men police charged in the theft were arrested in October.

According to police, Teron Butcher, 29, of 145th Avenue, Queens, was a loss prevention officer at the Bloomingdale's at the Roosevelt Field Mall. Police say he manipulated the cameras in the store to allow Kenneth John, 30, of 161st Street, Queens, to hide and stay in the store after-hours. John was also a loss prevention officer at the store.

On Sept. 22, police say that Butcher manipulated the cameras and so that John and Julian could steal merchandise from the store.

Police say Butcher and John robbed the store multiple times over the course of a year. The merchandise they stole is worth more than $260,000, police said.

Julian is charged with two counts of third-degree burglary and third-degree larceny. He was arraigned on Dec. 29 in First District Court in Hempstead.