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Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups
Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups A gang member from Ridgewood was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in federal prison for his role in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead after he and four others robbed a Hawthorne bar. Wilbur J. Barahona, 22, was the last of six defendants to accept a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark in connection with the separate crimes, which occurred within hours of one another. Exactly a year ago Wednesday, Barahona told a U.S. District Court judge that he and other members of the 18th Street Gang got into a cab in Paterson around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2015 for a ri…

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