NEWARK, N.J. – An Ohio man was sentenced today to 300 months
in prison for robbing a mobile communications company retail store in Orange,
New Jersey, at gunpoint in June 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Frederick A. White, 47, previously pleaded guilty to one
count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a
crime of violence before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi, who imposed the
sentence today in Newark federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements
made in court:
On the afternoon of June 11, 2016, White entered a mobile
communications company retail store in Orange wearing a wig and brandishing a
handgun. White stole cash from an employee of the store and fled. He was
arrested a short while later after a foot pursuit by the Orange Police Department.
White previously was convicted of multiple counts of armed
and attempted carjacking and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence
in federal court in Newark in 1993.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Cecchi sentenced White
to five years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the FBI,
under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Gregory W. Ehrie in Newark, and
the Orange Police Department, under the direction of Director Todd Warren and
Chief Law Enforcement Officer Vincent Vitiello, for their assistance with the
investigation leading to today’s sentencing. He also thanked the Essex County
Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Acting Prosecutor Theodore N.
Stephens 2nd, for its assistance.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys
Elaine K. Lou and Desiree Grace Latzer of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal
Division in Newark.
Defense counsel: Michael N. Pedicini Esq., Chatham, New
Jersey
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