Fitzgerald Convicted in Robbery of Linden Shoe Store
Mervin Fitzgerald, 51, of Edison, NJ, has been convicted on charges of kidnapping in the first-degree and robbery in the second-degree. In the early evening of New Year’s Eve in 2012, two men stormed the Payless shoe store in Linden, and forced two employees at gunpoint to lay on the floor, where they were tied up, and the two men made off with $200 in cash. A customer found the employees afterward and called the police.
Investigations led to a discarded glove on which Fitzgerald’s DNA was found. Fitzgerald was being held by the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department for failing to pay child support when the authorities tracked him down. The second suspect in the robbery has not been identified.
Fitzgerald will be sentenced in May 2017 and could receive 10-20 years in state prison.
