A Bristol Township man and a Bensalem Township man were both arrested following a robbery in Middletown Township’s Langhorne section, according to authorities.
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Last Thursday around 11:40 a.m., Middletown Township police received a report of a robbery at point of gun at the Infinity Smoke Shop in the 1200 block of East Lincoln Highway.
Responding officers confirmed there was a robbery and employees at the smoke shop provided a description of the suspect. The robbery was captured on the store’s security camera system, police said.
“There were no injuries to anyone and taken during the armed robbery was cash and several cartons of cigarettes,” police said.
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With information in hand, patrol officers and detectives searched the surrounding area and began collecting evidence, police said.
More security camera footage was gathered and more information confirmed by investigators, police said.
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“Within a few days, MTPD Detectives focused on two suspects – the suspect who entered the store and committed the armed robbery with a handgun and the getaway driver who also planned the armed robbery,” police said in a statement.
Bensalem Township police had an overlapping probe and began working with Middletown Township investigators, police said.
On Monday, Timothy Allen Baker, 44, of Bensalem Township, was arrested and is accused of being the getaway driver and mastermind of the robbery, police said.
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On Thursday, Middletown Township detectives and an FBI task force arrested Gerald Michael Majchrzak, 64, of Bristol Township, at a halfway house in Philadelphia without incident. He is accused of being the suspect that entered the store and committed the gunpoint robbery, police said.
In a statement, Middletown Township police said the inter-agency cooperation between Lower Bucks County departments and the FBI Bucks and Montgomery Safe Street Task Force led to the “quick clearance and apprehension of the suspects.”
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The duo were charged with robbery, theft, retail theft, and possession of a weapon. Allen faces an additional conspiracy to commit robbery charge and Majchrzak was hit with an additional charge of possession of a firearm while prohibited.
Both defendants were being housed at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. Allen’s bail was unclear, but Majchrzak had bail set at 10 percent of $25,000.
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Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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