27-Year-Old Edgewater Man Pleads Guilty For His Role In The June 2022, Teaneck High-Tech Armed Robbery
Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 7:30 A.M. ET. By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
TEANECK, NJ.- Late last month, a 27-year-old Edgewater, New Jersey man entered a guilty plea to the charge of armed robbery for his part in the June 16, 2022, attempted armed robbery of a Teaneck, New Jersey man outside his residence.
According to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, on May 24, 2024, Zef Hajdari appeared in Bergen County Superior Court and entered a guilty plea to first-degree Armed Robbery. In return for the guilty plea, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office will recommend that Hajdari be sentenced to six years in New Jersey State Prison. Sentencing in the case has been scheduled for September 13, 2024.
The guilty plea stems from an investigation that began on Thursday, June 16, 2022, when members of the Teaneck Police Department responded to a report of an attempted armed robbery. Upon arriving on the scene, Police Officers learned that the victim arrived at his home, got out of his vehicle, and was approached by a suspect who pointed a firearm at him while attempting to rob him of his belongings.
The victim was able to flee from the suspect, at which time the armed suspect, along with an additional suspect who was hiding near the victim’s home, escaped in a waiting vehicle that was being driven by a third suspect.
Accordingly, members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Squad responded to the scene and began an investigation.
During the investigation, Detectives determined that the victim was tracked by a global positioning device, which was attached to the victim’s vehicle. Detectives were able to identify the getaway vehicle used during the robbery attempt and the identities of two of the suspects involved.
As a result of the investigation, on February 2, 2023, Zef Hajdari and Jeremy Chico were each formally charged with one count of first-degree Armed Robbery; one count of second-degree Conspiracy to Commit 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.
Later that day, on February 2, 2023, Hajdari was located and taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York by Detectives of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Port Authority Police Department.
The following day, on February 3, 2023, Detectives of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the Teaneck Police Department, and the New York City Police Department located and apprehended Chico in the Bronx, New York. Following being taken into custody, Chico was remanded to the New York Department of Corrections, Rickers Island Facility, where he remains pending extradition to Bergen County, New Jersey, pending the resolution of a New York criminal case.
The investigation into the Teaneck, New Jersey attempted armed robbery remains active and ongoing as Detectives continue their efforts into the identity and whereabouts of the third suspect.
