Man found guilty in Genoa Township extortion, home invasion

Staff Reports

A New Jer­sey man was sen­tenced to prison Mon­day after a Delaware County jury found him guilty of invad­ing a Genoa Town­ship home with another accom­plice last Feb­ru­ary and hold­ing the home­owner at gun point.

Felix Mau­rent, 33, of Jer­sey City was sen­tenced to 13 years in prison. A jury on July 12 found Mau­rent guilty on all counts, includ­ing two counts of aggra­vated bur­glary, four counts of kid­nap­ping — all with gun spec­i­fi­ca­tions and three counts of extortion.

Accord­ing to Delaware County Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney Carol O’Brien, at about 8:45 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2011, two men knocked on the door of a Genoa Town­ship home and iden­ti­fied them­selves as “agents.” After the home­owner denied them entrance, one of the sus­pects flashed a badge and the other a gun. The home­owner opened his door as they forced their way inside. The wife of the home­owner locked her­self and her chil­dren in an upstairs closet and dialed 911. The sus­pects, one of whom was Mau­rent, held a gun to the homeowner’s head and threat­ened to kill him and his fam­ily if a pend­ing civil law­suit was not dropped. The two sus­pects then fled the res­i­dence through the back entrance.

There is an ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the sec­ond accom­plice. Mau­rent, who has 30 days to appeal his sen­tence, will be under five years of post-release con­trol fol­low­ing his prison term.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jul 25 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.