Four Jersey City men on Tuesday admitted terrorizing a family of three during an armed home invasion robbery last summer in West Orange, prosecutors said.

Edward Bentura, 33, Yodelin Diaz, 25, Lidio Martinez Miese, 30, and Jesus Quinones, 38, all pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Martin G. Cronin to armed robbery, conspiracy, burglary and weapons offenses as part of plea agreements with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

The men each had been facing a total of 17 counts, including terroristic threats and tampering with evidence, under an indictment returned by a grand jury in Newark after their arrest by West Orange police last June.

In a statement, Assistant Prosecutor Jason Goldberg said the husband of the victim family had just returned from IKEA and was unloading his car when Bentura, Diaz, Miese and Quinones broke into the home on June 8.

After assaulting and binding the husband with zip ties, the men menaced his wife at gunpoint, the prosecutor said, before heating up a knife on the stove and threatening to kill both her and the infant child she held.

The four robbers tripped an alarm when they realized the home had a surveillance system and subsequently fled with the equipment, Goldberg said, after the mother had already covertly texted family and police using a hidden cellphone.

West Orange police later arrested Bentura, Diaz, Miese and Quinones on Interstate 280. At the time of their arrest, the prosecutor's office said, the men were found to be in possession of the stolen video surveillance equipment, as well as cash, zip ties and masks.

"This just result would not be possible if not for the bravery and vigilance of the victims in the face of danger, as well as the prompt and thorough efforts of the West Orange Police Department," Goldberg said in a statement.

The prosecutor's office said the plea agreements carry recommended sentences of 15 years in state prison, of which the men each would be required to serve more than 12 before being eligible for parole.

Of the four defendants, only Quinones is an American citizen. Bentura, Diaz and Miese will be deported after serving their prison terms, authorities said.

Their sentencings have been scheduled for April 8.

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