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New Brunswick Man Charged With Robbing Four Township Residents In Fake PlayStation Exchange

June 24, 2020 Crime News

What was supposed to be a routine in-person culmination of an online PlayStation game console exchange for four township residents turned into robberies of all of them by a 22-year-old New Brunswick man, police said on June 24.

The man was arrested on June 19 near Hempstead Plaza on Route 27 and charged with two counts of 1st Degree Robbery and two counts of 2nd Degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose in connection with the alleged robberies, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

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