Guilty plea for teen boy in Rockland kosher supermarket robbery
March 20, 2007, 9:33 PM EDT
NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) _ A teenage boy who helped beat the manager of a kosher supermarket while stealing $15,000 from it on Thanksgiving Day has pleaded guilty to robbery.
Francisco Feria, 16, admitted in county court on Tuesday that he was among four people who pulled off the brazen crime at the Monsey Glatt.
The robbers, two of whom once worked at the supermarket, jumped the manager and pistol-whipped him before snatching the money from the business office, police said. The manager suffered a broken cheekbone.
Supermarket surveillance video camera footage showed one of the robbers, who all wore masks, scooting under a counter and heading straight for the manager, police said.
"The way they blitzed the store manager and ducked under the counter, the manager had no chance," Ramapo Detective Sgt. John Lynch said.
Feria pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and faces 10 years in prison when sentenced on May 15. He and the three others, who have pleaded not guilty, had been indicted on robbery and assault charges; the others, ages 21 to 23, have cases pending in county court.
All four were arrested this year in their hometown, Spring Valley. Two of them, Feria and a cousin, are originally from Mexico.
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