Immediate Release
01/17/2024 |
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| Contact: D/Lt. S. Ligato
sligato@hamiltonpdnj.gov |
On January 16, 2024, at approximately 10:48 pm, Hamilton Police officers were detailed to El Mexicano Restaurant, located at 1633 Hamilton Avenue, for a robbery that just occurred. Responding officers met with employees of the business who advised that a black male entered the business and forcefully took money from one of the employees at the business’s cash register, then fled on foot. The employee sustained a minor injury to her hand but refused medical attention on scene. Employees of the business followed the suspect to the area of Greenwood Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue, where Officer Piotrowski and Officer Doan located the suspect and took him into custody. The suspect was identified as Jamar Hutchinson, 25, of Hamilton, NJ.
Hutchinson was charged with robbery and transported to the Mercer County Correctional Center pending a detention hearing.
Anyone with additional information regarding this incident is asked to contact Detective Nicholas Schulte at (609) 689-5825 or nschulte@hamiltonpdnj.gov. The public can also leave a message on the Hamilton Police Crime Tip Hotline at (609) 581-4008.
Every defendant is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
