UPDATE: Suspects Followed Gas Company Employee Before Attack, Robbery

Police are retracing the steps of four men in a gold Nissan who they believe followed a victim Tuesday and then waited for him at a headquarters in Mahwah where they later beat him up and robbed him

Police investigating a beating and robbery outside a Mahwah company Tuesday night now believe four suspects followed their victim to several places before waiting for him in a Route 17 building, punching him several times in the face, and stealing $70,000 in cash from him. According to Chief Jim Batelli, police are investigating forensic evidence and surveillance video in an attempt to retrace the steps of masked men in a gold Nissan Altima who apparently chose their victim very carefully. The victim is a 54-year-old employee of Paks Fast Service, which owns 24 gas and service stations in North Jersey, police said. Before the robbery, the man had gone to four or five gas stations owned by the company to collect cash to deliver to the its …

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