Rustambek Zokirov and Cheng Wei Weng were captured on surveillance cameras inside a Flushing apartment complex where they allegedly impersonated federal agents during an armed robbery last month.
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Two Queens men were arrested Aug. 2 and arraigned in Brooklyn federal court hours later, where they were both charged with impersonating a federal officer during an armed robbery in Flushing last month.
Law enforcement officers arrested Cheng Wei Huang and Rustambek Zokirov, who resides in Queens but remains a citizen of Uzbekistan, for impersonating FBI agents on July 16 when they allegedly kidnapped two victims and held them for hours at gunpoint inside their Flushing apartment building, according to court documents.
At approximately 7 a.m. on July 16, the two adult victims — a 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman — entered the parking garage located in the basement of 137-35 Elder Ave. near Main Street in Flushing. They were driving a Mercedes-Benz, which they lease from a dealership.Seconds later, Zokiriv and Wei Huang entered the garage in a black Porsche Cayenne and as they got out of the vehicle they brandished firearms and identified themselves to the victims as FBI agents, handcuffed the victims, and escorted them to their fifth floor apartment.
Once inside, the victims were blindfolded, restrained with duct tape, and repeatedly tased by the co-conspirators, who also threatened to shoot them if they did not cooperate. Over the next few hours, Zokirov and Wei Huang — both 24 years old — stole credit cards, designer handbags, luxury jewelry, the keys to the victim’s Mercedes and approximately $30,000 in cryptocurrency from at least one of the victims’ friends after they were forced to call the friend asking that they send the money to the co-conspirators, according to prosecutors.
At around 9 p.m., Zokirov and Wei Huang left the apartment with the stolen property. One of the co-conspirators then drove off in the victims’…
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