Wendell Bradley Jr, Gas Station Robbery, New Jersey 2024

[Image: A gas pump]

Grimy Times reported that on Oct. 10, 2024, U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo sentenced Wendell Bradley Jr., 27, of Bayonne, New Jersey, to 160 months in prison for his involvement in a string of armed robberies of gas stations and attempted carjacking in New Jersey.

The indictment charges Bradley with one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, one count of Hobbs Act robbery, one count of attempted carjacking, and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, from Jan. 3, 2022 to Feb. 4, 2022, Bradley – either alone or with Joseph Brown – would drive to a gas station, pull up to a gas pump, ask the gas station attendant to put gas in the car’s tank, and, while the tank was being filled, would pull a gun on the attendant and demand money.

The spree ended after Bradley and Brown robbed a gas station attendant at gunpoint in Secaucus, New Jersey. Bradley and Brown fled, and officers chased them from Secaucus to Newark, where Bradley crashed his car. While both men were running away from police, Bradley pulled his gun, approached an off-duty Essex County Sheriff’s officer, and demanded that the officer give Bradley his car. The officer disarmed Bradley and detained him.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Arleo sentenced Bradley to three years of supervised release.

The case was investigated by the ATF, under the direction of special Agent in Charge L.C. Cheeks, Newark Field Division, and the Clifton Police Department, under the direction of Chief Thomas Rinaldi, the Hillside Police Department, under the direction of Chief Vincent P. Ricciardi, Jr, the Jersey City Department of Public Safety, under the direction of Director James Shea, the Newark Police Department, under the direction of Emanuel Miranda, the North Bergan Police Department, under the direction of Chief Peter Fasilis, the Secaucus Police Department, under the direction of Chief Dennis Miller, and the Union Police Department, under the direction of Police Director Chris Donnelly.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Webman of the Economic Crimes Unit and Megan Linares of the Cybercrime Unit in Newark.

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