Crime & Safety

Cabbie Slashing, Robbery Net Cherry Hill Woman 12-Year Sentence

Breanna Pimienta is sentenced after lodging a guilty plea in the 2012 incident.

A Cherry Hill woman who robbed a cabdriver during a brutal attack in Mount Laurel was sentenced to a dozen years in state prison Tuesday, the Burlington County Times reported.

Breanna Pimienta, 19, one of four people implicated in the attack on cabdriver Joseph Dominguez, had pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and one count of receiving stolen property for her role in the January 2012 incident.

She stole $40 in cash off Dominguez after one of her co-defendants, Mahadi M. Robinson Jr., 22, of Maple Shade, slashed the cabbie’s throat in what prosecutors said was a well-planned attack.

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While Pimienta’s attorneys called for leniency in sentencing, prosecutors successfully argued she be hit with the full terms laid out in the plea agreement she took.

“This defendant was simply out of control,” Burlington County Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor James Ronca said, according to the Times.

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Pimienta’s boyfriend, . Mercado admitted to taking the wheel of the cab after Dominguez ran to get help after being slashed.

, have yet to be sentenced in the case.

Dominguez, a driver for Five Star Cab Service in Camden, was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden following the attack, which happened on Forrest Court in Mount Laurel. He eventually recovered from the slashing, but was left with scars on his next from the wound, which cut into his jugular vein.


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