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Hector Felix, 25 and Josue Felix, 21, would have to remain under house arrest, with monitoring bracelets, at their father’s Bronx apartment if they make $200,000 bail — reduced from $500,000, Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi ruled this past week.
Hector Felix, Nico Vega, Josue Felix (FILE PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia)
The judge noted that the United States doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the Dominican Republic, that the brothers live in the Bronx and not New Jersey and that both have criminal records — including arrests by the NYPD earlier this year.
Still, she said, “I am going to reduce the bail because they don’t have significant priors [previous arrests].”
DeAvila-Silebi said both must surrender their passports and green cards, raising an objection from defense attorney Vincent Basile, who said the Felixes “can get in trouble if they don’t have their green cards with them at all times.”
“They’re going to be under house arrest,” the judge responded, “so it’s not going to be a problem.”
Bail can’t be posted for either brother until a hearing is held to determine the source, she ruled.
Two officers who responded to a 4:36 a.m. burglary alarm on Oct. 8 found the rear door of Jennifer Convertibles on Route 4 pried open, as a crew attempted to break through a wall into an adjoining vacant property on their way to a T-Mobile store, law enforcement sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT soon after the incident.
Using the getaway car as a weapon, 20-year-old Miguel Reyes of Manhattan struck a Paramus officer, who landed on the hood and squeezed off some shots from his service weapon.
Hector Felix, Josue Felix, Nico Vega (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BCSO)
The 2015 Kia slammed into the median on westbound Route 4, after which police arrested Reyes, the Felix brothers and a fourth man, 25-year-old Nico Vega.
Reyes later died at HUMC.
The officer sustained “a head injury, as well as injuries to his lower extremities, contusions and bruises,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the time.
He was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center and released, the prosecutor said.
Charges against the trio include armed burglary to the Jennifer Convertibles and vacant adjacent store; attempted armed burglary of the T-Mobile; conspiracy to commit armed burglary; and possession of weapons and burglary tools.
ALSO SEE: Three arrested, one dead in fatal Paramus burglary
STORY/PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia
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