Man arrested in Rite Aid robbery, priest's carjacking

Police say they have arrested the man who robbed a Haddonfield Rite Aid store at gunpoint, then carjacked a priest in the parking lot last month.

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said Donald Hart, 27, of Mantua, was taken into custody Tuesday at a Cherry Hill convenience store in the June 16 robbery.

Hart, described by prosecutors as a semiprofessional wrestler, is accused of jumping the pharmacy counter at the store at 715 Haddon Ave., brandishing a handgun, and demanding Adderall and oxycodone.

After obtaining pill bottles, he forced the priest from a car in the pharmacy parking lot, then drove off, abandoning the vehicle about a block away, officials said.

Investigators identified Hart as a suspect through DNA obtained from physical evidence found in the abandoned vehicle, prosecutors said.

Police said the robber cased the drug store masquerading as a highway or utility worker, dressed in a safety vest and hard hat.

The same bandit was also suspected in two other South Jersey pharmacy holdups, at a Logan Township Rite Aid and a Woolwich Township CVS store.

Hart is facing charges from the Haddonfield holdup that include robbery, carjacking, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses.

He was being held at the Camden County Jail on $315,000 bail.

Charges in the other incidents have not yet been filed, prosecutors said.