Two men that made off with a luxury wristwatch and cell phones in Bergen County, one of which was presumed to be a victim, have been charged and indicted with armed robbery and related offenses, county officials announced Wednesday. Gliderman D. Cienfuego Castro, 37, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Eduardo L.
Villegas Valera, 30, of Elmhurst, New York, were charged with two counts of first-degree armed robbery, and second-degree counts of conspiracy to commit robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and two counts of fourth-degree aggravated assault. Englewood Cliffs police responded to a report of an armed robbery at a commercial property on Sylvan Avenue on March 11 around 3:55 p.m.
and found three alleged victims were held at gunpoint by an armed suspect who had already fled the scene, authorities said. The initial investigation discovered that the victims had been approached by a single suspect with a handgun that forced the victims into an open storage room at the business, authorities said. The suspect told the victims to lie down before taking their cell phones and removing one victim’s luxury wristwatch and then locked the victims in the storage room and fled the scene in a waiting getaway vehicle, authorities said.
But authorities later determined that one of the alleged victims was actually an accomplice, according to officials. Villegas Valera, who was initially among the alleged victims, was identified as a hired acco.
