By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, October 11, 1990
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A 26-year-old Northvale man was charged with armed robbery after he tried to hold up a borough gas station but was foiled by an attendant, police said.
The suspect, Nicholas Proios, later confessed to robbing two gas stations in Alpine and Emerson during the weekend, police said.
Proios approached Robert W. Gardner, an attendant at the Northern Valley Motors gas station at 484 Closter Dock Road, at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and said he had a gun, police said.
When he told Gardner to empty his cash register, Gardner refused and foiled the robbery, said Closter Police Capt. John Rose.
“He had an object in his jacket that he purported to be a gun, but the gas attendant saw that it was a staple gun,” Rose said. “He decided to take him on. He physically detained the robber. “
Proios confessed during police interrogation to robbing the Texaco gas station on Closter Dock Road in Alpine on Saturday and the Emerson Exxon on Kinderkamack Road on Sunday, Rose said.
Police accounts of both incidents were similar: Proios allegedly walked in, told the attendants he had a gun, and announced a holdup. The Alpine robbery yielded $200 and Emerson, $466.
Closter police on Tuesday charged Proios with armed robbery. Bail was set at $50,000, and he was sent to the Bergen County Jail.
Alpine and Emerson police said Wednesday they also would charge Proios with armed robbery.
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