The total take: five grand.
Rahquan Brooks, 20, and Kevin Ulysses, 19, of the Bronx had two juveniles with them when they drove up to the Exxon station on eastbound Route 46 just before the Overpeck Creek bridge in Ridgefield Park shortly before 4:30 a.m. July 24, 2022, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
The silver sedan had been carjacked out of Brooklyn three days earlier, he said.
Wearing hoodies, sunglasses, masks and gloves, the robbers took $3,000 after forcing open the cash register while one of them brandished what Musella said “appeared to be a black colored firearm.”
Minutes later, he said, the same crew took $2,000 by force from the cash register at the 7-Eleven at the Sunoco station near the exit for Sixth Street in Palisades Park. It was barely five minutes past the first location and another five to the GWB up ahead.
No injuries were reported in either holdup.
Musella’s detectives spent nearly 18 months assembling a case with help from police in Ridgefield Park and Palisades Park, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification — which collected evidence — and both the Nassau County (NY) Sheriff’s Department and the NYPD.