June 20, 2003
 
 Police think they have their masked bank robber
 By Jessica Gardner
 and Brendan Scott
 Times Herald-Record
bscott@th-record.com
jgardner@th-record.com
 

 
 Monroe – A Monroe man was arrested yesterday after police say they found a camouflage mask
 in his home along with a few $2 bills taken from a Blooming Grove bank robbery last month.
 Police say it was 20-year-old Nicholas Kramer who stormed into the Ellenville National Bank branch
 on Route 208 May 20 wearing a camouflage face mask and waving what looked like a black revolver.
 He walked out minutes later with two yellow ShopRite bags filled with $1,923 in cash, police said.
 Authorities started looking into Kramer as a suspect after the Town of Blooming Grove police detectives
 received information implicating him. Town of Blooming Grove police Chief Carl Schupp
 wouldn't say what information that was.
 A search of Kramer's residence turned up some of the 20 $2 bills that were taken from the bank
 and the camouflage mask, police said. The gun used in the robbery, actually a BB gun,
 was found in a creek near Kramer's home, police said.
 Kramer, of Rosemont Road, was charged with second-degree robbery
 and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies,
 and sent to Orange County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
 State police and the Town of Blooming Grove police were assisted in the investigation
 by the Orange County district attorney's office, the Salisbury Mills Fire Department dive team
 and special agents from the Goshen office of the FBI.

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