Man gets 8 years after robbing pharmacy at gunpoint, making off with just $130, officials say
Updated May 05, 2021;
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Elioenai Aguinaga, 32, of Lakewood, pleaded guilty to robbery on Jan. 27, authorities said.
Lakewood Police officers were called to Taylor’s Pharmacy on Madison Avenue for a report of a robbery on March 26, 2020 and learned that a man had entered the business, pointed a semi-automatic handgun at a store clerk and demanded money from the cash register, the office said. The man made off with only $130, officials said.
After an investigation revealed that Aguinaga was the man who robbed the pharmacy, he was arrested on April 25 by the Lakewood Police and was lodged in Ocean County Jail, where he has remained since he was apprehended.
Married N.J. spa owners used business to trade sex for money, authorities allege
Updated May 05, 2021;
A Toms River husband and wife who own a spa in town were charged last month with promoting prostitution and two counts of money laundering, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday.
Wayne Lefkowitz, 56, of Toms River, and Guihua Cui, 51, were charged on April 28 and April 29, respectively, the office said. Lefkowitz and Cui are married.
The charges came after a year-long investigation by the office into the Lakewood Road business, Spa 1800, by the office’s economic crime squad and special victims unit, authorities said.
No jail time for man who admitted running over 5 geese in shopping center
Updated May 05, 2021;
A man who admitted running over five geese in the parking lot of a Toms River shopping center in 2019 will not see the inside of a jail cell, authorities said.
Quintin Alec-Manning, 22 of Brick Township, who pleaded guilty on March 15 to animal cruelty, was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and ten days of community service, despite prosecutors arguing for him to serve 90 days in the Ocean County Jail, according to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Ocean County Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan also barred Alec-Manning from owning or working with animals during the term of his probation, the office said.
The Toms River man was arrested after making threats to bulldoze several buildings in Ocean County through a series of YouTube videos, prosecutors said