Fla. man gets 3.5 years for robberies

STAMFORD — A Florida man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two robberies at separate Norwalk check cashing locations.

Judge Kevin Randolph sentenced Andres CueroMarroquin, 31, to three and a half years in prison during a disposition hearing at the state Superior Court in Stamford Wednesday.

The sentence came as a part of an agreement between public defender Benjamin Aponte and Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Moran.

Under the agreement, Cuero-Marroquin pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree robbery, which stemmed from two unrelated robberies that happened over a three-day period in 2018 in Norwalk.

“I would like to apologize for my mistakes,” Cuero-Marroquin said before his sentencing.

On Oct. 7, 2018, CueroMarroquin robbed a man of $2,300 as the man left a check cashing location on Connecticut Avenue, police wrote in an arrest warrant.

Two days later, CueroMarroquin walked into a different check cashing location on Ely Avenue, where he gestured at an employee as if he had a gun then proceeded to rob the cash register, the warrant said. The employee later told police she believed Cuero-Marroquin stole about $2,000, according to the warrant.

Cuero-Marroquin was also facing an attempt to commit first-degree robbery charge at a third check cashing business on East Main Street on Oct. 14, 2018. State prosecutors ultimately elected to nolle the charge.

“I would like to ask for forgiveness from the people I have harmed,” CueroMarroquin told Randolph on Wednesday.