3rd Man Arrested In Bergen County Kidnapping And Armed Robbery Case: Police

RIDGEWOOD, NJ - A third man was arrested and charged Tuesday in a carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery case involving a taxi cab driver, village police said.

Guillermo Carrillo-Iraheta, 18, was charged with carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, and aggravated assault after he and two other men, Wilber Jonathan Barahona, 20, of Ridgewood, and Jostin Vidal Soriano Reyes allegedly kidnapped a taxi driver who was taking the men from Paterson to Reyes’ Waldwick home Dec. 26, police said.

The driver was ordered to pull over on North Monroe Street in Ridgewood where he was allegedly assaulted and robbed, police said.

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The man was then kidnapped, taken in the cab, and dumped on the side of the New York Thruway, police said.

The charges are the result of a six-week long investigation into the incident by members of a task force comprised of members of the Ridgewood, Hawthorne, Waldwick, Mahwah, and New York State police departments, along with the Bergen County and Passaic County prosecutor’s offices and the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force.