Ridgefield Park teens charged in Cliffside Park knife-point robbery

An 18-year-old Ridgefield Park man remained held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail in connection with the knifepoint street robbery of two juveniles that Cliffside Park police said he committed with another teenager.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF*

Jerry DeMarco

02/04/2015 11:58 p.m.

Detectives arrested Roberto Antonio Castro and the 17-year-old boy, also from Ridgefield Park, the day after the 10 p.m. Jan. 30 holdup on Oakwood Avenue and Columbia Place.

Both 17-year-old victims apparently knew Castro and his companion, police spokesman William Maer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Neither was injured in the robbery, in which $83 in cash and two cellphones were stolen, he said.

The knife wasn’t recovered, Maer said.

Castro, meanwhile, was charged with two counts each of robbery by force and unlawful weapons possession.

The juvenile was issued a delinquency complaint on the same charges and taken to the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro pending a hearing in the Family Part of Superior Court in Hackensack.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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