Police said two Ocean Township residents conspired to rob an Asbury Park resident outside an apartment complex.
OCEAN TOWNSHIP -- Two township residents, including a teenager, are accused of luring an Asbury Park resident to an apartment complex to rob him with an airsoft gun.
At around 7 p.m. Tuesday, a 22-year-old Asbury Park man, who police did not identify, went to the Middlebrook at Monmouth apartment complex to meet a friend, Ocean police Detective Lieutenant Timothy Torchia said in a statement.
As the man was waiting outside, he was confronted by another man who flashed a handgun and demanded the victim give him his backpack, cell phone and cash, Torchia said.
The robber ran away after the victim gave him the items, Torchia said. The victim then went to a relative's apartment in the complex and called police.
Local police and a K-9 unit from Deal searched the area but could not find the robbery suspect, Torchia said.
Detectives then learned that a 17-year-old Ocean Township woman who knew the victim conspired with a 20-year-old man, identified as township resident Royal Moore, to rob the man at the apartment complex, according to Torchia.
Police believe the weapon used in the robbery was an airsoft gun.
This is not Moore's first brush with the law. In March, he was accused of drunken driving and drug charges after he crashed into a parked car on Wickapecko Drive.
Moore now faces charges of robbery, possession of a handgun and possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose. The 17-year-old woman was charged with conspiracy to commit a robbery and was released by police pending a juvenile hearing in family court.
Moore was taken to the Monmouth County jail.
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