EVESHAM, N.J. (WCBS 880) -- Officials arrested a 70-year-old man with a history of bank robberies for robbing a New Jersey Rite Aid pharmacy last year, authorities said Wednesday.
According to Evesham police, just before 5 p.m. on Nov. 15, Michael Swift walked into the drug store located on North Maple Avenue and handed a cashier a threatening note demanding cigarettes and money.
Swift then fled the location on foot toward Church Road where an unidentified item that was recovered by police helped identify who committed the robbery, officials said.
A follow-up investigation by the Evesham Police Department Investigative Bureau, and other officials determined that Swift had similar crimes which resulted in search warrant executions and the recovery of evidence that implicated Michael Swift as the responsible person for the robbery.
Swift was arrested and charged with second degree robbery. He is currently incarcerated in the Burlington County Jail.
He was also arrested last month and charged with robbing an Ace Hardware on Route 33 in Hamilton, according to Mercer County town police.
Additionally, Swift is suspected of committing similar crimes in Mount Laurel, Delran, Mount Holly, and Cinnaminson, an Evesham police spokesman said.
Swift was convicted of robbing banks by using a plastic toy pistol to threaten bank employeesin Moorestown, Audobon, and Clementon in 2008 and later sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, according to court records.
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