SALEM, NEW JERSEY — A New Jersey clerk has been arrested for making a suspected shoplifter strip at fake gunpoint. <br /><br />WPVI reports that the incident happened Monday night at a Sunoco Gas Station in Salem. According to store personnel, clerk Amit Saraswat had spotted a man he believed had stolen from the store over the past few days.<br /><br />Usually, you call the cops and get to the bottom of it, but Captain Justice had other ideas, and instead took out a gun.<br /><br />Surveillance video shows him aiming the firearm at the suspected pilferer from behind the counter and then forcing him to strip all the way down to his birthday suit.<br /><br />The nekkid man left the store but came back later after realizing the weapon wasn't real. Investigators later said it was an Airsoft gun.<br />WCAU reports that after the incident was reported to police, they came and arrested Saraswat.<br /><br />He's been charged with aggravated assault by pointing a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm for unlawful purpose and terroristic threats.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the customer he branded as a shoplifter hasn't been charged, and no one knows if he even actually stole anything from the store.
