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The hearing-impaired man told police a tall white man with a beard robbed him of $150 and his cellphone at knife-point at the corner of Wilson Avenue and Shaler Boulevard just after midnight Sept. 9.
Twelve days later, a woman told police a similar-looking man tried to take her pocketbook as she walked on Day Avenue around 11:30 p.m. — roughly the same time of day and in the same neighborhood as the previous incident, Fairview Deputy Police Chief Martin Kahn told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time.
By chance, the same woman was talking on her cellphone the next day when another man warned her to be careful: His nephew had recently had his taken at knifepoint, he said.
Fairview police talked to the 15-year-old victim, who told them that he was robbed of his cellphone and cash around the same time of day on Day Avenue on Sept. 14 by a man fitting the same description.
The teen also said he’d seen the man who robbed him standing in a nearby apartment window talking on the stolen cellphone sometime later, the deputy chief said.
Sgt. Michael Martic and Detective Jose Rivas re-interviewed the boy, who took them to that address.
That’s when they spotted Justin Raul Castillo.
Castill remained held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
The 7-count indictment charges him with three armed robberies and four illegal weapons possession offenses.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy FAIRVIEW PD
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