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MAN, 63, CRITICALLY HURT IN ROBBERY

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By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Friday, November 8, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page C08

A 63-year-old city man was hospitalized in critical condition after he was beaten and robbed in the basement of his Windsor Road home Thursday morning, officials said.

The robbery occurred about 12:45 a.m. when the victim returned home from his liquor store in New York City, police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said. Police declined to identify the victim.

The victim’s wife had heard a noise downstairs and thought it was her husband coming home from work; she went downstairs when she heard a second noise and didn’t hear him call out to her, Tinsley said.

“She went to the basement and saw her husband bleeding, and his hands were handcuffed. He was incoherent and was bleeding from the nose,” Tinsley said. The victim had been struck on the head with a blunt object.

“We don’t have any information as to how many suspects we are dealing with right now,” Tinsley said.

Tinsley added that police have not been able to talk to the victim, who was being treated at Englewood Hospital on Thursday.

Police were investigating whether the victim was followed home from New York City, Tinsley said, adding that two gold rings and a brown briefcase were stolen. It was unclear what was in the briefcase, or whether anything else in the house was stolen, he said.

ID: 17360500 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

November 8, 1991
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STORE IS ROBBERY’S SECOND FATALITY; SHOP CLOSING AFTER N.J. MAN IS KILLED

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 6, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03

Daisy Benitez says being held up is something the merchants in her area learn to live with. But after a robbery claimed the life of a Tenafly man in her store, she says she’s closing up shop.
Benjamin Braddock Peisch, 24, of Oak Street was shot and killed Thursday night when he walked in on a robbery of the Daisy Bariete clothing store in Upper Manhattan and intervened.
Benitez, 34, of Queens said Saturday that she would sell her stock T-shirts, jeans, socks and close her doors for good.
“If he hadn’t had a fight with them, they wouldn’t have shot him,” Benitez said in Spanish, translated by her 24-year-old niece, Florence Ramos. “They threw him on the floor twice and told him to stay there. He kept getting up.”
John Mullin, a Tenafly High School social studies teacher, said Peisch was just the kind of person to intervene if he saw something amiss.
“This kid was a gentleman through and through; he’s always stood up for the underdog,” Mullin said. “It would have been a surprise to me that something wrong was going on and he didn’t try to set it right.”
Tenafly High School Vice Principal Bernard Josefsberg said the death was a shock to everyone at the school.
“This was really a great kid,” he said.
On graduation from the school in 1986, Peisch was given a $500 scholarship by the Tenafly Lions Club, in part for demonstrating seriousness of purpose and civic consciousness, Josefsberg said Friday.
His family declined to comment.
Peisch, a junior at Montclair State College, first came to the store about two weeks ago and stopped to talk with one of the saleswomen, Benitez said. He seemed to like the woman and returned to talk to her twice, she said.
The three robbers came in about 6 p.m. Thursday, put guns to the backs of three employees, and herded them into the back of main area of the store, in the basement of a residential building at 568 W. 171 St.
“He came down in the middle of all this and went to the girl’s defense,” Benitez said.
The robbers knocked him to the ground twice, Ramos said, the second time hitting him with the butt of a handgun and opening a gash in the back of his head. In the ensuing struggle, as the three men ganged up on Peisch, one shot him in the chest, she said.
No one else was injured, and the men escaped with an unspecified amount of money. Benitez said the employees working in the store at the time of the robbery had quit and would not return.
Police on Saturday were looking for witnesses, said New York City police Sgt. Tina Mohrmann.

Keywords: ROBBERY; STORE; CLOSING; NEW JERSEY; MURDER; TENAFLY; SHOOTING; NEW YORK CITY; CLOTHING; BENJAMIN BRADDOCK PEISCH

ID: 17357316 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 6, 1991
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ROBBERS KILL N.J. SHOPPER; TENAFLY MAN INTERVENED

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, October 5, 1991

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A 24-year-old Tenafly man who walked in on an armed robbery at a New York City clothing store and intervened was shot and killed by one of the robbers, police said Friday.
Benjamin Peisch of 91 Oak St. died at the scene on Thursday, 34th Precinct Detective Matthew Fallon said.
“He had an altercation with one of the people committing the robbery. They hit him a couple of times, then shot him,” Fallon said.
Peisch was shot once in the chest as he struggled with one of three men during the robbery, which occurred about 6:25 p.m. in the basement of Daisy Bariete Store, a unisex clothing store at 568 W. 171 St., Fallon said.
Peisch was an innocent bystander who “seemed to have walked into an apparent robbery in the store” and decided to get involved, Fallon said, adding that police were looking on Friday for witnesses.
No one else was injured, and the men escaped with an amount of money police would not disclose.
Peisch is believed to have been a 1986 graduate of Tenafly High School.
Sgt. Norris Hollmon, a police spokesman, said police used identification in Peisch’s wallet to trace him to Tenafly late Thursday. Tenafly Police Chief Allen Layne said he was called by New York police about the death at 10:19 p.m., and that his officers notified the family. Hollmon said the family identified Peisch’s body later that night.
A man reached at the family residence on Friday declined to comment.

Keywords: TENAFLY; ROBBERY; NEW YORK CITY; SHOOTING; MURDER; CLOTHING; STORE

ID: 17357301 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 5, 1991
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TEANECK ROBBERY SUSPECT HAD BEEN ON PAROLE 3 DAYS

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, October 3, 1991

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A Jersey City man who robbed a Teaneck savings and loan twice in a two-month period committed the first crime three days after he had been paroled for robbing another bank, authorities said.
Alfred N. Ferguson, 34, was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Newark with one count of robbery, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Brown said. On Tuesday he jumped over the counter at Oritani Savings and Loan at 560 Cedar Lane and took about $5,000 from tellers drawers, police said.
Ferguson, being held without bail in the Union County Jail in Elizabeth, also is expected to be charged with the Aug. 1 robbery of the savings and loan, in which $10,000 was taken, and with the July 31 attempted robbery of the United Jersey Bank branch at 21 Park Place in Englewood, authorities said.
After his capture following the robbery Tuesday, Ferguson confessed to the two robberies of the savings and loan and to the attempted robbery at the Englewood bank, in which his note demanding money was refused, police said.
That attempt occurred two days after Ferguson was released from the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Institution in Bordentown. He had been paroled after serving three years of an eight-year term for robbing a Jersey City bank in 1988, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Corrections Department said.
Teaneck Police Detective Lt. Warren White said Ferguson walked into Oritani Savings and Loan about 2:25 p.m. Tuesday and vaulted over the bank counter including a transparent, protective barrier that was installed after he allegedly robbed the bank in the same manner two months earlier.
Sweeping past two tellers, both of whom were on hand for the first robbery, Ferguson reached into their cash drawers and took about $5,000 before running out the door, police said.
A customer in the bank ran after Ferguson as he dashed across Cedar Lane. The customer, who got into his car and drove after the suspect, saw him jump into his car and drive away. He gave upthe chase when police pulled behind Ferguson and arrested him a short time later. The customer is expected to testify as a witness.
The FBI, which had been investigating because bank robbery is a federal offense, questioned Ferguson late Tuesday and charged him under federal statutes. Also instrumental in the investigation, said FBI spokesman William Tonkin, were the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department.

Keywords: TEANECK; BANK; ROBBERY

ID: 17357083 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 3, 1991
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2 N.Y. MEN HELD IN ARMED THEFT OF CAR IN FORT LEE

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, September 19, 1991

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Two New York City men were arrested after they robbed a couple of their car at gunpoint in a store parking lot near the police station Tuesday, police said.
Dwayne McDaniel and Ross Ramseur, both 21, were arrested shortly after the 11:35 p.m. robbery in the parking lot of the ShopRite at 1355 Inwood Terrace, a couple of doors from police headquarters at 1325 Inwood.
Patrolman Philip Ross was pulling out of the Police Department parking lot when he was stopped by two people who told him that their car had just been taken from them by two armed men, Police Chief John Orso said.
Ross relayed descriptions of the suspects, the car they came in, and the stolen car over the police radio.
Fort Lee Detective Tom Sweeney saw the stolen car, a blue 1991 Acura, heading north on Center Avenue, near Main Street, and pulled it over at the Bridge Plaza South intersection, Orso said.
The suspects had the .44-caliber revolver used in the robbery, the chief said.
Orso declined to identify the victims, except to say the woman, 23, is a borough resident, and the man, also 23, is from Connecticut.
The charges against McDaniel and Ramseur, now being held in the Bergen County Jail on $20,000 bail each, are two counts each of aggravated assault, possession of a weapon, and receiving stolen property.

Keywords: FORT LEE; ROBBERY; WEAPON; MOTOR VEHICLE; THEFT

ID: 17355735 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

September 19, 1991
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2 JUNE ROBBERY SUSPECTS HELD IN SIMILAR CASE

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, August 30, 1991

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Two men charged in June with pulling a bank messenger from his car and robbing and beating him were arrested Wednesday for a similar offense, authorities said.
Christopher Camacho and Alan Amador were two of four men on foot who demanded money from the driver of a commuter van as he waited at a red light at 79th Street’s intersection with Boulevard East, then attacked him when he refused, Police Lt. Timothy Kelly said.
A resident who saw the 5:40 p.m. attack called police, Kelly said. Police chased the men and arrested them a short while later, Kelly added.
The van driver, Jose Mucha, 35, of Kearny, suffered bruises, Kelly said. He said Mucha was treated at the scene by North Bergen Ambulance Corps paramedics.
Charged with robbery were Camacho, 20, of 7521 Bergenline Ave.; Amador, 18, of 6223 Liberty Ave.; Carlos Castro, 18, of 7721 Bergenline Ave., North Bergen; and Alberto Arroyo, 18, of 30 Prospect St., Palisades Park.
All four suspects were being held on $2,000 bail each in the Hudson County Jail.
A messenger for the Trust Co. of New Jersey was robbed of $12,000 in cash and $4,000 in checks on June 24. Raymond Ayala, the messenger, was hospitalized for severe bruises over his body, a fractured eye socket, a broken nose, and a broken jaw.
Amador and Camacho were among eight men arrested three days later in connection with that attack. Accused of helping plan that robbery, they were charged with conspiracy, aggravated assault, and robbery.

Keywords: NORTH BERGEN; ROBBERY

ID: 17353948 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

August 30, 1991
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