UPDATE: Police Release Surveillance Footage of Elks Lodge Robbery

$1,000 stolen during incident late Tuesday night

Toms River police are searching for the suspect they said robbed the Toms River Elks Lodge while armed with an automatic handgun late Tuesday night. Officers responded to the lodge at 600 Washington St. where the 70-year-old male bartender and a 66-year-old female Elks member said that a man armed with an automatic handgun stole $1,000 after a brief struggle near midnight, said Chief of Police Michael Mastronardy. "During the struggle the female hit the suspect with a large bottle of alcohol," the chief said. "Neither of the victims received injuries." The suspect is described as a white male, 6 feet 1 inch tall with a heavy build, curly dark hair and was wearing a dark three-quarters parka, dark skull cap and a blue and white scarf …

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Spotlight on Local Music

From Backyard BBQ to Party Rock Dreams

Cover band Justified rocks Elks, charity events, and is simply big fun to its members

In Toms River Patch's ongoing feature on local bands and musicians, this week is an interview with Justified, a diverse cover band comprised of five members from in and around Toms River and Beachwood. They've got some benefit concerts they are playing as well as private events. Here's more about Justified. What is the current line-up of your band and when did you form? Give us some straight-up "About Us" type stuff. A brief history of your band. Justified started out in the fall of 2009 when John and Joe had a little jam session during a backyard BBQ. A couple of people wandered in and said, "Hey - That sounds pretty good." Well, that started the ball rolling and the search for the rest of the band was on. Fred, who was at the original …

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