Teen Nabbed After Pulling Gun During Bogus Bicycle Sale In Wallington Park, Prosecutor Says

A Bloomfield teenager with a conviction already on his record was charged with pulling a reverse online bicycle sale robbery at a park in Wallington last month.

Cristopher Pacheco-Rosario
Photo Credit: *Prakash Narain Singh*

Jerry DeMarco

11/14/2023 7:11 p.m.

Cristopher Pacheco-Rosario, 19, arranged to sell a bicycle to one of a group of five juveniles at Samuel Nelkin County Park on Oct. 24 through Facebook Marketplace, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.

Instead, Pacheco-Rosario pulled a gun on them when they arrived, and the group fled, the prosecutor said, a Dominican national living in the Brookdale Gardens apartments.

Wallington police and members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Squad conducted a joint investigation and eventually landed on Pacheco-Rosario.

Bloomfield police arrested Pacheco-Rosario separately on weapons and disorderly person charges on Monday, Nov. 13, records show.

Musella’s detectives then charged him with first-degree robbery, aggravated assault and several weapons counts, including possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

He remained held in the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark.

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