Cepeda, Almonte, Ulloa, Fernandez

By Cecilia Levine From Daily Voice

Four Bronx residents have been charged in a harrowing carjacking targeting a Teaneck couple in their driveway over the summer, authorities said.

The victims had just returned home from New York City around 5 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, when a white Acura TLX pulled up and blocked their Palisade Avenue driveway, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Two masked suspects with handguns ordered the victims to lie face down. Cash and jewelry were taken from them, and one suspect fled in the victims’ SUV while the Acura also drove off, authorities said.

Detectives later determined the Acura was using a stolen New Jersey license plate and was suspected in other incidents in the region, Musella said.

Musella said Emmanuel Almonte, 34; Jender A. Santos Ulloa, 23; Marolyn E. Mosquea Fernandez, 23; and Armando Cuevas Cepeda, 21, were identified as the suspects following a months-long joint investigation, according to the prosecutor.

Each suspect was charged with one count of first-degree armed carjacking, two counts of first-degree armed robbery, one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, and one count of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, the prosecutor said.

Santos Ulloa was arrested on Friday, Oct. 24, in Paterson with help from Paterson police and was taken to the Bergen County Jail. Cuevas Cepeda was taken into custody in Fort Lee on Thursday, Oct. 30, and was also lodged in the Bergen County Jail.

Almonte, who was already in custody in New York City for an unrelated offense, was served with charges on Thursday, Nov. 13, and remains held at Rikers Island pending extradition, Musella said. Mosquea Fernandez was arrested in the Bronx on Friday, Nov. 21, with assistance from the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and remains in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction.