Man Accused of Shoving Girl Flees With Tip Jar
Hackensack man was arrested last week and charged with robbery, police said.
A man who pushed a seven-year-old girl while stealing a tip jar is facing a robbery charge after being caught by Teaneck police, authorities said.
Police were called to the Green Garden Chinese Restaurant on Teaneck Road for a report of a theft around 9 p.m. on July 26, police said. The restaurant’s owner told police a man had grabbed the tip jar and fled.
The owner’s daughter ran to help her mother when she heard screams, but the thief pushed the girl and took off, according to police.
Two alleged accomplices, Englewood residents Matthew Chisholm, 24, and 19-year-old Kunami Porter were caught nearby, but the alleged robber, identified as 22-year-old Walter Alston, of Hackensack, managed to escape the initial search, police said.
Teaneck detectives found Alston last week in Hackensack. While taking the tip jar began as a theft, police said the crime escalated to robbery when Alston shoved the young girl. She was not hurt in the incident.
Chisholm and Porter were both charged with conspiracy to commit robbery because police said they discussed splitting the profits outside the store. Police are investigating if a fourth person was also involved.
Alston was being held Wednesday at the Bergen County Jail on $10,000 bail while Chisholm and Porter were held on $2,500 each, records show.
The tip jar the three were after turned out to have about $20 in it, police said.
sharon
12:59 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011
All three are idoits, I know the enconomy is Bad at this time, but was it worth it ? $20.00...I hope this crime teach these young men to do the right thing in the future hopefully the court system won't be to hard on them if they don't have any prior records. If they have done other or similar crimes like this, then throw them in the slammer to learn a lesson. Continuing down this road in this manner, only means they might not be too lucky the next time....
Bklynjs
8:15 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011
This is the crime of 15 year olds. These guys were looking for alcohol or drug money. If they were hungry they would have ordered and stole food. The thing is with the other two waiting outside and the talk of splitting the proceeds this was not a crime of opportunity but was pre-etermined. Throw the book at them.
John Maximus
2:41 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
I knew that Matthew Chisholm kid in elementary school, there was something wrong with him then. He would narrate lines from Playboy channel shows on the bus to himself. He looks really messed up here