10 Yrs NJSP in 2 NJ Bank Robberies, Attempted Disarming

PRESS RELEASE
August 1, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Thomas A. Struss (DOB 9/4/75), a former West Deptford NJ resident, was sentenced today (8/1) to 10 years in New Jersey state prison for each of two bank robberies he admitted committing in July 2010.

Struss received the same sentence for his guilty plea to an attempted disarming of a Gloucester County sheriff’s officer at Underwood-Memorial Hospital in Woodbury NJ while being treated for an injury 8/10/11.

Under terms of a plea agreement with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, Struss, who is currently serving a prison sentence for narcotics possession, will serve the 10-year sentences concurrently with each other. He will not be eligible for parole before completing 85 percent of the sentence.

Struss, who Superior Court Judge Walter L. Marshall Jr. noted had 18 juvenile adjudications for crimes and an adult record that included convictions for burglary, drug possession, aggravated assault and a prior bank robbery, admitted robbing the TD Bank on Rt. 45 in West Deptford on 7/25/11 and The Bank on Bridgeton Pike on 7/26/11. A total of nearly $3,000 was taken. He was arrested at his St. Regis Court residence 7/28/10 after a Mantua police officer identified Struss through distinctive neck tattoos that appeared on images a bank security camera captured.