\u26fd A gas station attendant in Paramus was injured after a driver allegedly stole $50 worth of gas and sped away, running over the worker\u2019s foot.
\ud83d\ude94 Surveillance video and a multi-agency investigation helped police identify and arrest a New York man connected to the incident.
\u2696\ufe0f The suspect now faces robbery, aggravated assault and theft charges stemming from the Bergen County gas station encounter.<\/p>\n
PARAMUS<\/a> \u2014 A New York man has been arrested in connection with a robbery and aggravated assault <\/a>that occurred at a gas station in Bergen County in May.<\/p>\n Paramus gas station theft turns violent<\/p>\n On May 29, at approximately 8 a.m., Paramus police responded to the Exxon station, located at 792 Route 17 North, after receiving a report that someone stole gasoline.<\/p>\n The 43 year old attendant from Oradell told police the driver requested $50 worth of regular gasoline and said he would pay in cash.<\/p>\n ALSO READ: Drugged driver going 100 mph gets 15 years for killing\u00a0 mom\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n After the attendant filled up the car, the driver hit the gas pedal and took off without paying, driving over the attendant’s right foot. The attendant was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti.<\/p>\n Gas station attendant injured during alleged drive-off<\/p>\n Surveillance video captured the incident and a detective identified the suspect vehicle as a 20025 Lexus bearing New York registration.<\/p>\n Bergen County investigation leads to New York suspect<\/p>\n With the help of the Clarkstown Police Department, the detective was able to identify the driver as Alexis J. Santiago, 35, of Airmont, New York, Guidetti said.<\/p>\n Robbery and aggravated assault charges filed<\/p>\n He was taken into custody the same day by New York State Police on unrelated charges including, second-degree robbery, third-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (motor vehicle), fourth-degree assault by auto, and theft, a disorderly persons offense.<\/p>\n Report a correction<\/a> \ud83d\udc48 | \ud83d\udc49 Contact our newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n NJ teachers recently accused of sexual crimes<\/p>\n Several New Jersey educators and coaches have faced recent accusations of sexual misconduct, while others return to court as their cases progress.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Erin Vogt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u26fd A gas station attendant in Paramus was injured after a driver allegedly stole $50 worth of gas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14472,9,11,10,17805],"class_list":["post-284927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-jersey-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ultimate-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}