Harrisonville NJ Man Pleads to CVS Robberies

PRESS RELEASE
June 30, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Howard D. Lopez (DOB 4/20/81) of Harrison Township NJ pleaded guilty today (6/30) to robbing two CVS drug stores of painkiller pills in July 2010.

In a plea agreement, Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Joseph More will recommend Lopez be sentenced to four years in New Jersey state prison for each robbery, the terms to run concurrently. He will be ineligible for parole for 85 percent of the term (3 years, four months) and be subject to three years of parole supervision after prison.

Superior Court judge Walter L. Marshall Jr. scheduled sentencing for Aug. 19. Lopez has been held in the Gloucester County Jail in default of $100,000 bail since his 8/10/10 arrest.

In his guilty pleas, Lopez acknowledged he threatened employees of CVS stores in Franklin and Harrison townships, Gloucester County NJ on 7/19/10 and 7/28/10. His lawyer asked whether he told store workers he “would do bodily harm to them if they did not comply with giving him oxycodone pills” and Lopez said he did. He left with pills in both cases, he said.