Men Sentenced To Prison For Gunpoint Robberies in Woodbridge, Paramus

By DANIEL HUBBARD (Patch Staff)

June 24, 2015

Two Brooklyn men were sentenced to several years in prison Wednesday for robbing, and planning to rob, several electronics stores at gunpoint and tying up employees at stores in Paramus and Woodbridge, authorities announced.

Eric Williams, 34, and Sulayman Graham, 32, both of Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced to 12 and a half and 5 and a quarter years in prison, respectively, for robbing electronic stores in Woodbridge and Paramus between September 2012 and January 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. The men each pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano of one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robberies.

Williams helped plan the robbery of an electronics store in Paramus on Jan. 16, 2013, authorities said. Two men entered the store, forced employees, a customer, and UPS employee into the back of the store, and tied them up.

Williams also delivered between 90 and 100 stolen cell phones taken from T-Mobile stores in Woodbridge and Linden in 2012 to a cell phone store in Brooklyn, Fishman said.

Leonard Arrington, 28, robbed the Woodridge T-Mobile store at gunpoint in October 2012. Graham and Terrell McQueen were lookouts and getaway drivers, Fishman said; Arrington tied up employees in the back of the store and stole approximately 40 cell phones.

Thompson also sentenced Williams and Graham to three years of supervised release.