TRENTON—A Newark, New Jersey man who
conspired with his uncle to rob or attempt to rob two banks was sentenced today
to 45 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Juan Perez, 22, previously pleaded
guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging
him with one count of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, one count of attempted
bank robbery, and one count of bank robbery. Judge Wolfson imposed the sentence
today in Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this
case and statements made in court:
Perez admitted that from June 2010 until
August 2010, he conspired with his uncle, Nathaniel Barreto, 29, of Newark, to
attempt to rob a PNC Bank in Bloomfield, New Jersey on August 9, 2010; and to
rob another PNC Bank in Whippany, New Jersey on August 17, 2010. Perez admitted
going into the PNC Bank to scope it out for customers and surveillance cameras.
He admitted driving the getaway car in both crimes. Barreto, who brandished what
appeared to be a firearm in both banks, entered a guilty plea before Judge
Wolfson on October 12, 2011. Barreto pleaded guilty in October 2011 to bank
robbery and is awaiting sentencing.
In addition to the prison term, Judge
Wolfson sentenced Perez to three years of supervised release and ordered to him
pay restitution of $4,527.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited the FBI,
under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward in Newark, along
with the Hanover Township Police Department, the Morris County Sheriff’s
Office, the New Jersey State Police, and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office
for the work leading to today’s guilty plea.
The government is represented by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shirley U. Emehelu of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
Criminal Division in Newark.
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