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Julian Mangal, 18, had been free, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, since village police charged him with a car burglary in June.
** UPDATE: Two more people were arrested in connection to a home invasion that left the owner and an older woman pistol-whipped and slashed **
Around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said, he searched an unlocked car outside the victims' 4th Street home.
Armed with a gun and a knife, he walked into the house -- apparently through an unlocked door -- and took a cellphone at gunpoint from a teen who'd been sleeping on a couch, they said.
The boy’s grandmother came in and was assaulted, they added.
Mangal then went into the room of 49-year-old Frank Veritas and woke him up, authorities said.
Veritas told News4 New York that Mangal pointed a gun at him, then slashed and pistol-whipped him during a violent struggle that injured both men.
The assailant then fled with his wallet, which he said contained about $400, Veritas said.
SEE: New Jersey Homeowner Scuffles With Armed Robber, Throws Him Through Closet
Veritas told News4 New York that he was able to provide a good description to detectives because Mangal apparently had once attended a party at his house.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office had the 6-foot-3-inch, 150-pound Mangal in custody following his arrest overnight Wednesday, pending his transfer to the county jail.
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