Tyhan Lighty allegedly bound the hands of a parking garage attendant with zip-ties and stole $6,350 on May 18, 2014, the Daily Record reported.
MORRISTOWN -- A man who's accused of robbing a Morristown Medical Center employee at gunpoint in the hospital's parking garage in 2014 has admitted in a pre-trial hearing to using and selling heroin but not to the hold-up, the Daily Record reported.
As reported by NJ Advance Media, Tyhan Lighty, 45, of Orange, was indicted this past October on robbery and weapons charges for allegedly robbing an employee in the hospital's parking garage on Madison Avenue while brandishing a handgun shortly before 11 a.m. on May 18, 2014. He fled the scene after the robbery, prompting an extensive, multi-agency investigation, authorities have said.
Lighty was charged by a warrant nearly a year after the robbery after detectives with the Morris County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit identified him as the perpetrator, Knapp said. He was later arrested on June 18 by officers with the East Orange Police Department.
According to the Daily Record, Lighty bound the hands of a parking garage attendant at the hospital's parking garage with zip-ties and stole $6,350.
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