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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. |