Four men wearing masks and carrying handguns followed a Jets player from New York City bars and clubs to his Morristown home before robbing him in his driveway, according to police.
“Give me everything you have” and “don’t do anything stupid,” one or more of the robbers said as they took a $10,000 watch and $400 cash from the victim in a heist on Feb. 15, 2025, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Noah Shaffer, 26, of Paterson, was charged last month with two counts of first-degree robbery and second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery.
Shaffer remains in the Bergen County Jail, where he has been held since Aug. 21, 2025, on unrelated charges of aggravated assault on a police officer and motor vehicle theft.
The affidavit states Shaffer’s cellphone number connected on the day of the robbery to multiple cell towers in New York and in Morristown, near the football player’s home.
The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office is withholding the name of the victim.
“AT&T records showed the user of this number to be ‘Street Monkey,’ with a common address belonging to (Shaffer),” detectives wrote in the affidavit.
Additionally, Morristown police obtained surveillance video from bars and clubs the player had visited hours earlier in New York City.
The video showed a stolen SUV used in the robbery “positioned outside of the locations waiting for the victims to leave,” the affidavit states.
Surveillance video showed the SUV crossing over the George Washington Bridge into New York around 2:35 a.m.
Video also showed the victims’ vehicle – with the player, acquaintances and a driver inside – being “closely followed” by the suspects’ vehicle back over the bridge around 7:38 a.m., according to the affidavit.
When the player’s vehicle pulled into his driveway, the SUV blocked them in and four masked men carrying handguns got out and robbed him, police said.
No other arrests have been made, and the prosecutor’s office did not say why it took nearly a year to arrest Shaffer.
Attorney information for Shaffer was not listed in court or jail records on Wednesday.