Man Charged With 2014 Enfield Armed Robbery

ENFIELD, CT - Enfield police served a warrant Tuesday on a Massachusetts man, charging him with an armed robbery at a liquor store more than two years ago.

Jeffrey Nentwig, 40, of Chicopee, Mass., was charged with first-degree robbery with a dangerous instrument, carrying a dangerous weapon, second-degree threatening, second-degree reckless endangerment and illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle.

Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said on Jan. 21, 2014, police received a holdup alarm from Angie's State Line Package Store, then located at 11 Enfield Street. The owner told officers a man dressed all in black, including gloves and a mask, brandished a handgun and held out a bag to be filled with money.

The woman and her husband emptied the cash register, showed the bandit the drawers were empty, and watched him flee and jump into a car bearing Massachusetts plates, Sferrazza said.

Enfield detectives conducted an investigation involving other area police agencies, and discovered Chicopee was investigating five similar holdups. In the course of the investigation, Nentwig was identified and brought in for an interview, during which he confessed to eight robberies, including the Enfield case, Sferrazza said.

A warrant for his arrest was approved in connection with the Enfield case, but he has been incarcerated elsewhere since that time. On Tuesday, he was brought to Enfield Superior Court and served with the Enfield warrant, Sferrazza said.

He was also charged this week in connection with a Jan. 29, 2014 robbery in Suffield, and a Jan. 31, 2014 holdup in Windsor.

Nentwig is currently being held at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, the chief added.

Photo courtesy of Suffield Police Department