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With help from their counterparts in Newark and at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, a team of North Arlington officer tracked Nathaniel Barreto, 27, to Florida and then back up the East Coast, before arresting him yesterday in Newark and finding $1,114 in cash in his apartment, taken March 26 from the Bank of America on Ridge Road in his apartment, Police Chief Chief Louis M. Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Ghione said there were “six bundles of cash, each wrapped in a Bank of America currency band…. Other items were located that also linked Mr. Barreto to the crime.”
Official charges: robbery and two weapons counts. Barreto is being held on $350,000 cash at the Bergen County Jail.
Barreto (l.) initially made it easy for police:
Even though he tried to conceal his face, he looked directly at the teller AND at the surveillance cameras. (See: Brazen bank robber all but smiles for the cameras)
But then he went on the run, making the task tougher.
North Arlington’s finest were up to the task, though, Ghione said. He cited three detectives — Lt. Keith Walton, Sgt. Joseph Prinzo, and Mark Ballantyne — and Police Officer Michael Horton for their exhausive work in identifying and tracking down Barreto, recovering the loot, and getting positive identifications from people at the bank.
“They did a bang-up job,” the chief said.
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