Bicycle Riding Bank Robber Charged By FBI

NEWARK, NJ—Special Agent Weysan Dun announced that Antoine Henderson, age 25, of 41 Stonehaven Lane, Willingboro, New Jersey, was charged federally yesterday with one count of bank robbery and one count of the use of a weapon in a crime of violence. Anderson was arrested on July 6, 2009 by Evesham Township Police after a police pursuit that resulted in Henderson attempting to hide inside a furniture store on Route 73 South in Evesham Township.

Earlier that day, at approximately 2:00 p.m., a lone, black male robbed the TD Bank located at 401 Route 73 and Kresson Road in Vorhees, New Jersey. The robber vaulted the teller counter while brandishing a handgun and proceeded to empty the teller drawer. After fleeing the bank with an undisclosed amount of money, the robber fled on a bicycle. Vorhees police responded and began tracking the robber in the wooded area behind the bank.

During that investigation, Evesham police received a call from a citizen that a suspicious man appeared to be hiding near a dumpster between the wooded area and a nearby business in close proximity to the bank. When responding officers approached the dumpster, the suspect ran back through the woods and into the rear entrance of the Lazy Boy furniture store on Route 73 South in Evesham Township. Officers quickly evacuated the building and established a perimeter around the building. After a few hours had passed and because attempts to contact the suspect inside the building had failed, the Evesham Police Department SWAT team entered the store and apprehended the suspect who was hiding in the ceiling above the restrooms. No one was injured in the apprehension.

The suspect, who was later determined to be the same individual as the black male who robbed the TD bank in Vorhees a few hours earlier, was later identified as Antoine Henderson. Through subsequent investigation that day, law enforcement linked Henderson to three other bank robberies where a bicycle was involved:

5/28/2009, Beneficial Bank, 1139 Cooper Street, Edgewater Park, New Jersey
6/12/2009, Wachovia Bank, 4306 Rout 130, Willingboro, New Jersey
6/27/2009, Wachovia Bank, 4306 Route 130, Willingboro, New Jersey

Also later that day, law enforcement searched the woods behind the TD Bank where Henderson was seen running. They recovered a bicycle, a bag containing money, a mask, a hooded sweatshirt, and a silver frame handgun with a black slide—all matching a description of items worn and used by the bank robber. According to the Vorhees Police, a record check of the serial number on the gun determined that the gun had been stolen from the State of Florida.

Henderson will face the Honorable Karen M. Williams, United States Magistrate Judge in federal court in Camden sometime next week for his initial appearance. A criminal complaint is merely an accusation. Despite this accusation, every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun commends the officers of the Vorhees and Evesham Police Departments, as well as the responding FBI agents. Most notably, Dun recognized the ordinary citizens who witnessed the events of this robbery unfold and provided assistance to law enforcement through their accounts: “There is a famous saying: ‘All that is needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.’ Well, good people came forward with information and it paid off tenfold and their community is much safer for it.  The accused criminal was caught and no one got hurt: it doesn’t get better than that.”

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