Crime & Safety

Gas Station Robbed at Gunpoint

Police investigating Sunday night armed robbery at West Essex Sunoco.

A man wearing a mask robbed a gas station at gunpoint Sunday night, according to .

The armed robbery took place around 9:30 p.m. at the at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Clinton Road.

The robber got away with an undermined amount of cash, West Caldwell Police Captain Gerard Paris said Tuesday.

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Paris said the man was described as thin and young. He said he got away on foot and "disappeared."

The incident remains under investigation.

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Last June, a man at the same gas station was nabbed after a helicopter search at a nearby .


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