One Armed Robbery Arrest, Another Incident in Toms River

A suspect in a vicious armed robbery at a Toms River tanning salon is in custody. But two men who held up a couple at gunpoint outside a restaurant in the township are on the loose.

Police, Wednesday, charged Patrick McCormack, 19, of the township with the September 23 holdup of the Got Sun salon on Route 37. He's accused of keeping an employee at bay with a box cutter while taking cash. His bail was set at $100,000 at the Ocean County Jail.

Meanwhile, two men who allegedly placed the barrel of a gun at a man's head in the parking lot of the Red Lobster on Hooper Avenue last Friday are still outside the grasp of law enforcement.

Officers responding to an alert at 11:59 PM were told that the victim and a woman companion were approached by two black males with a handgun as they were about to enter a car, taking cash from the vehicle.

They're described as clean shaven and about six feet in height, taking off in an older-model, grey, four-door sedan driven by a third black male.

Detective Randy Petrick heads the investigation and is taking information confidentially at 732-349-0150, extension 1235.

Sun and Sand and Drugs

A Toms River motel with a troubled past becomes the scene of yet another heroin bust. Police armed with a warrant searched the Sun and San Motel on Route 37 last Sunday, seizing 935 folds of heroin along with Xanax and marijuana.

Tamsyn Hundemann, 43,of Bayville, was charged with five different possession- and distribution related counts, and was sent to the Ocean County Jail on bail of $100,000.

The motel was the site of a similar bust in August, and the spot where a heroin overdose victim was resuscitated with Narcan in May.

Head-On Crash Leaves Three Hurt

Finally, a Beachwood woman and two passengers in her car were all rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Wednesday night when their car was hit head-on by a car with a driver apparently asleep at the wheel.

The 2010 BMW driven by Warren Merguerian, 60, of Toms River, crossed into oncoming traffic on Oak Avenue at Penny Lane Road around 8:13 PM, police said. It rammed into a 2011 Hyundai driven by Maryanne Gordon. Merguerian was not hurt but was ticketed for careless driving, and the crash is still under investigation, police said.