Four arrested in robbery

BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer

BY SUE M. MORGAN
Staff Writer

EATONTOWN — Four suspects, two men and two women, were arrested by borough police late last week in connection with the Nov. 14 robbery of a Route 35 adult entertainment center at knifepoint.

One of the women charged in the late night robbery at the Adult Emporium, in which the suspects netted $1,000 cash, is a former employee of the business, according to police.

Wesley Wyckoff, 25, of the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, and Jerome Harbour, 23, of Neptune, the two men who allegedly entered the store and threatened and tied up the lone female sales clerk before taking the cash, were arrested in separate locations on Thursday, police reports state.

Wyckoff was apprehended as he was walking alongside Route 35 in Ocean Township. Harbour was taken into custody at the Wanamassa residence of one of the female suspects, Kimberly Forrest, 25.

Forrest, the former Adult Emporium employee, was subsequently arrested at her apartment on Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, police said.

Both Wyckoff and Harbour are charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, attempted robbery, criminal restraint, and two counts each of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, as well as two counts each of unlawful possession of a weapon.

One count of attempted robbery was tacked onto the other charges because the two men had tried to enter the store with the intent of robbing it after it had closed for business on the previous night, Nov. 13, explained Cpt. George Jackson, a police department spokesman.

The fourth suspect, Brittney DiGregorio, 26, of Eatontown, was apprehended separately at her home on Thursday and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.

Police reports indicate that Wyckoff and Harbour entered the store wearing black stockings over their heads at about 10:44 p.m. on Nov. 14 while the store was open for business. No customers were inside the store at the time, according to police.

After brandishing a large kitchen knife and pulling the clerk from behind a sales counter, Wyckoff and Harbour reportedly bound her with duct tape and forced her into a restroom, police said.

The men then took the cash and left the premises leaving the clerk tied up, police state. She managed to free herself and then contacted police.

Wyckoff and Harbour remain in the Monmouth County Correction Center on $100,000 bail each. Both Forrest and DiGregorio have been released on $25,000 bail.