Six Yrs NJSP in Heritage's Armed Robbery

PRESS RELEASE
June 3, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Izaiah Redd (DOB 7/27/91) of 167 Lincoln Rd., Deptford was sentenced today (6/3) to six years in New Jersey state prison for his admitted robbery of a Heritage’s convenience store on Glassboro Road in Woodbury Heights on Jan. 1, 2011.

In sentencing Redd under a guilty plea negotiated with Assistant Prosecutor Janis Melfi of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson said the defendant must serve three years before he is eligible for parole. He pleaded guilty 4/8/11 to robbery and unlawful possession of a weapon. Redd, whose lawyer said he is a Morgan State College student, also was ordered to make restitution of $12.84, the remaining $646 stolen having been returned to the store.

Police summoned to the Heritage’s store were told a man wearing a black mask and brandishing a gun had taken cigarettes and cash from two cashiers and ran from the store. Woodbury Heights Officer Nicholas DiBiasio apprehended the defendant a short time later nearby in a wooded area off West Jersey Avenue in Woodbury Heights. The weapon, a BB gun that resembled a firearm, was recovered by a Mantua Township police K-9 team in the wooded area.