VICTIM IDS ROBBERY SUSPECTS

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Monday, January 20, 1992

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A 31-year-old Cliffside Park woman who was held up at gunpoint has identified two Newark men in a police photo lineup as the robbers, police said.

Township police charged Kenneth Snead, 24, with armed robbery and unlawful possession of a weapon on Friday, and are looking for Melvin Crooks, 26, on the same charges, said Lt. Timothy Kelly, township police spokesman.

An employee of the McDonald’s restaurant at 2126 Tonnelle Ave., which was robbed last Monday night, also identified Snead as the gunman who, with another man, came to the drive-up window and demanded money, Kelly said.

The Cliffside Park woman was walking on Eighth Street on Wednesday when she was chased by the robbers, struck on the back of the head, and knocked to the ground before they drove away with her pocketbook.

The woman wrote down the license plate number of the assailants car. Snead and Crooks were later arrested by Newark police. The car, which had been stolen earlier Wednesday, was recovered with the woman’s purse and a cash till from the Roy Rogers restaurant at 1440 Tonnelle Ave. The restaurant was held up about 15 minutes after the woman was attacked, police said.

Newark police had Snead, who they were holding on an outstanding warrant, in custody when North Bergen police came calling later Thursday, Kelly said. Newark police had released Crooks on bail.

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