Bristol Twp. Man Guilty In Armed Robbery Of Smoke Shop

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, PA —A 66-year-old man has been convicted for the armed robbery of a Middletown Township smoke shop in May 2022, authorities said.

Gerald Michael Majchrzak, of Bristol Township, was found guilty Tuesday of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, theft, and possession of a weapon following a two-day trial before Common Pleas Judge Stephen A. Corr. He was sentenced by Corr to five to 10 years in state prison, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

His co-defendant, Timothy Allen Baker, 46, of Bensalem Township, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery and will be sentenced in October.

Middletown Township police were dispatched at 11:41 a.m. May 5, 2022, to the Infinity Smoke Shop, 1236 E Lincoln Highway, for an abandoned 911 call.

Dispatchers were later advised that employees were reporting that the store had been robbed at gunpoint.

Officers arrived and identified the suspect as a white male with white hair, wearing a blue zip-up hooded sweatshirt with a blue medical-style face mask and sunglasses.

The store’s surveillance footage showed a man pulling a black handgun from his side and pointing it at two employees.

The man made off with $3,000, a cigarette lighter, two cartons of cigarettes, and a pack of condoms. He walked across East Lincoln Highway, got into a silver Hyundai Elantra, and fled the area.

The investigation resulted in Majchrzak being identified as the man who committed the robbery and Baker as the getaway driver.

The case was investigated by Middletown Township Police Department, the Bensalem Township Police Department, and the FBI Bucks and Montgomery Safe Street Task Force.