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Three of the accused robbers forced their way into a Terrace Avenue home and demanded cash and valuables from the owner on Nov. 11, 2022, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
“One of the men pointed a semi-automatic firearm at one of the residents,” the prosecutor said.
The masked trio fled with $32,000 in cash, a Cartier watch, a pair of Dolce & Gabbana shoes and a cellphone.
They then hopped into a black Honda SUV with a waiting getaway driver and were soon gone, Musella said in an Aug. 24 release.
No injuries were reported to any of the three people who investigators said were home at the time.
The prosecutor's Special Investigations Squad worked the case with Maywood police.
Detectives reviewed area surveillance video and traced the SUV to Derick De La Rosa, 19, of the Bronx, the prosecutor said.
A subsequent review of cellphone records showed him and three other defendants communicating with one another, he said.
Then BCPO detectives -- along with law enforcement personnel from the FBI-NJ Violent Crimes Task Force and the FBI-NY Safe Streets Task Force – hit locations in Perth Amboy, the Bronx and Yonkers last Thursday, Aug. 17.
They arrested the quartet, all of whom Musella said are single and unemployed:
- Derick De La Rosa, 19, of the Bronx;
- Joaquin Portorreal-Garcia, 21, who lives with him;
- Francisco Rojas-Corporan, 29, of Perth Amboy;
- Ismael Carrasco-De La Rosa, 32, of Yonkers.
Rojas-Corporan, having been arrested in New Jersey, is already being held in the Bergen County Jail.
Derick De La Rosa remained held by the Westchester County Department of Corrections pending extradition to New Jersey, Musella said.
Joaquin Portorreal-Garcia and Ismael Carrasco-De La Rosa were being held on Rikers Island pending extradition to New Jersey.
Musella didn’t say which three are accused of entering the home and who is the alleged wheelman.
Charges against all four include first-degree armed robbery, conspiracy, armed burglary, aggravated assault by pointing a firearm and various weapons offenses.
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