Bail was set at $175,000 cash or bond today for a 27-year-old Newark felon charged with robbing a man at gun-point at the Red Roof Inn in Secaucus in July.
A 27-year-old Newark man has been charged with July's gunpoint robbery at the Red Roof Inn in Secaucus.
Bail was set at $175,000 cash or bond today for Raheem A. Green, who was arraigned on charges of armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and various weapons offenses when he appeared in Central Judicial Processing court today.
According to a criminal complaint, Green brandished a .22 caliber Sig Sauer handgun during the July 14 robbery at the inn, located at 15 Meadowlands Parkway, near Route 3.
He is also charged with conspiring with a woman and an unknown male to drive to the inn for the purpose of committing the robbery, the complaint alleges.
Secaucus police said at the time that the 31-year-old victim was approached in the parking lot by two men wearing gray shirts. The victim managed to wrestle the gun away from one of the robbers, who immediately jumped into what was described as a gray vehicle that sped away, police said.
The victim, a Newark resident, was not injured and did not have anything stolen from him during the incident, police said at the time.
Police recovered the gun at the scene, however they did not specify at the time whether it was loaded, only that ammunition had been recovered.
Green has eight prior arrests and criminal convictions for manufacturing/distribution of drugs, drug possession within 1,000 feet of school property and a weapon offense related to a gun, court officials said.
In addition to the robbery charges, Green also faces counts of unlawful possession of a handgun, possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose and possession of a handgun by a felon, according to the criminal complaint.