Bensalem Police Arrest Smoke Shop Robbers

Bensalem Police have arrested two robbery suspects within hours of the tandem targeting a township smoke shop

According to a media release, on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at approximately 9:24 p.m., Bensalem Township Police responded to the Cloud City Smoke and Vape Shop, located at 5421 Neshaminy Boulevard, for the report of a robbery that had just occurred.

Upon arrival, officers determined that two males entered the store at separate times before one of the males, armed with a crowbar, announced a robbery and attempted to assault a store employee. Following a brief struggle between the male and the employee, the male fled the store and was chased outside by the employee, police said.

Investigators said suspects then fled the area in a white BMW sedan.

Through an investigation that included the use of surveillance footage, License Plate Readers (LPRs), and township intersection cameras, police identified the involved males as 30-year-old Ethan Maszczenski and 22-year-old Daniel McKay.

Arrest warrants for robbery were obtained for both Maszczenski and McKay, who had been taken into custody by the Philadelphia Police Department in an unrelated suspected robbery.

McKay was preliminarily arraigned by District Judge Terrance P. Hughes, Sr. Bail was set at 10% of $250,000, and McKay was subsequently remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility.

Maszczenski is currently being held in Philadelphia at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility pending extradition to Bucks County.

Both men are due back in court on May 27 to answer to said charges.