Leicester Resident Arrested For Allegedly Stealing a Woman’s Cell Phone At Gunpoint

 Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty reports the arrest of a Leicester NY resident on felony  Robbery charges after an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.  

It is alleged that on October 26, 2020 at approximately 5:35 am, 51 year old Guillermo Dediego Reyes went to a factory on Mt. Morris Road and confronted a female. It is further alleged that  Dediego-Reyes held a pistol to the female and stole her cell phone. Dediego-Reyes fled the scene  prior to Sheriff’s Deputies arriving.  

Sheriff’s Investigators later located Dediego-Reyes and took him into custody. Dediego-Reyes was  arrested and charged with felony Robbery in the 1st Degree, Menacing in the 2nd Degree, and Petit  Larceny.  

Dediego-Reyes was turned over to Central Booking Deputies at the Livingston County Jail for  processing and pre-arraignment detention as the offenses did qualify for pre-arraignment detention  under the NYS Justice Reform Act. The District Attorney’s Office was contacted in regards to bail due  to the felony level charge. It was recommended that Dediego-Reyes be held on $15,000 cash bail or  $30,000 bond.  

Dediego-Reyes was later arraigned at the Livingston County Centralized Arraignment Part (LC-CAP)  at the Livingston County Jail before Town of Avon Justice Temperato. The Judge did remand  Dediego-Reyes to the custody of the Sheriff on the recommended bail of $15,000 cash or $30,000  bond.  

The incident was investigated by members of the Patrol Division, Criminal Investigations Division, and  Forensic Identification Unit (FIU) under the command of Sheriff’s Investigator Gene Chichester.