Newark Robbery Defendant Sentenced for Armed Holdup in South Toms River

The thief who admitted robbing a South Toms River shop at gunpoint in December 2012 is sentenced to seven years in prison.

Ansumani Kamara, 22, was given the term in Toms River for his guilty plea to a first-degree charge of armed robbery with a firearm for the holdup at Hip Heads, according to information from the office of Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato. Codefendant Lamar L. Shell, 24, of East Orange, is scheduled for sentencing October 17.

Kamara will be required to serve nearly six years before parole consideration under terms of New Jersey's No Early Release Act (NERA), and was ordered to serve five years parole supervision after release.

Judge Wendel E. Daniels also instructed Kamara to pay restitution and refrain from contact with the victims.

This past August, Kamara admitted whipping out a firearm and, with two accomplices, threating the store's owner and others in the shop at the time, absconding with money and merchandies totalling about $4,700, prosecutors said. He's been in custody since his December 27, 2012 arrest, 16 days after the robbery.