Lakewood, NJ – A township teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a violent robbery of a rabbi last year.
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Superior Court Judge James Den Uyl imposed the prison term Friday on Timothy Swift and ordered that he serve 85 percent of the term before he can be considered for release on parole, under the state’s No Early Release Act for violent criminals.
Swift, 19, pleaded guilty in July to the robbery. Authorities said that on July 8, 2008, Swift accompanied Jose Diaz, 42, of Seaside Heights and Devon Hardy, 20, of Lakewood to a location in Lakewood where they robbed a rabbi, Jack Goldbaum, then 41, in front of his home. Goldbaum was punched and stabbed, and his wallet was stolen.
Hardy and Diaz are awaiting sentencing for robbing Goldbaum and another Orthodox Jew, David Davidovish. Davidovish was struck with a baseball bat and robbed of his laptop computer and several hundred dollars as he sat in a car in front of a convenience store on Route 9 in Lakewood on May 25, 2008.
Davidovich, then 38 and visiting from Israel, suffered a broken nose.
Authorities said that the trio targeted Orthodox Jews because they believed they would be unlikely to resist being robbed.
finally! some simchas yumtov
Wow! Truth in our justice system. So unusual.
Was he convicted for robbing an Orthodox Jewish man or for robbing a fellow citizen who just happened to be an Orthodox Jewish man?
Really great to hear. A good moiad
Why is everybody so happy, I don’t think 10 years is enough – he almost killled him!!!
Another criminal down from the street. Thank god. Good yomtov
what teenager, he’s 19 and legel. just because he’s nineTEEN dosen’t mean a thing it;s as if a 40 year old did it
The criminal, like many others believe that Jews are easy targets, who don’t resist, and are Not armed. It is time to change both that reality and perception to a criminal’s “victim selection process” that tells him “keep away from Jews, they will probably resist , deploying deadly force-find an easier target”