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Young and vicious: Baby-faced Tren de Aragua crew at NYC migrant shelter targets Times Square — and they’re getting away with it
…. Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11-years old, are now part of a dangerous asylum seeking brat pack that has graduated from purse snatchings to gunpoint heists targeting New Yorkers and tourists alike, a top NYPD official told The Post.
But they’re managing to stay out of jail because of their ages and the Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws, Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino said.
“You have individuals that are brazen,” Savino said. “We know they have access to guns, evident by the fact that they’ve done gunpoint robberies and they’ve been brazen enough to showcase pistols in and around their social media.
“This is the first formulated group that we found where this group of about 20 individuals that, in pack format, hang out every day, they post on social media, they boast about their crew,” the chief said. “You see little pockets in and around Times Square and in and around the shelters.
“But as far as a true threshold, it’s been limited to shelters.”
Calling themselves “Los Diablos de la 42” — Spanish for “Little Devils of 42” — the crew of about 21 gang members has been busted for 50 separate incidents, and yet not one is behind bars, Savino said.
“They committed the robberies [in] all the sexy places, in and around Central Park, in and around Times Square, in and around transit,” he said. “And targeting tourists.
The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown is the main intake center for migrants arriving in the Big Apple — and is the home base for a crew of Venezuelan gang members, according to police.Helayne Seidman
“They kind of had a graduation of sorts, and a progression where originally it started as snatches and then went to strong armed robberies, and then started brandishing knives in a pack format.”
…. TDA, which grew out of the poverty and corruption that has long plagued [socialist — Ed] Venezuela, established a criminal foothold in the five boroughs in little more than a year.
Law enforcement sources said gang members hid among the millions of asylum seekers who crossed the US border with Mexico since 2022, then scattered throughout the country.*
Well, at least they’re not taking over apartment buildings — at least they’re not doing that!
Yet.
*From that link:
A one-time Venezuelan prison gang has erupted into a multinational migrant crime syndicate that is ravaging the US — and is the subject of more than 100 police investigations across the nation.
Tren de Aragua, a vicious South American gang that sneaked into the US among the millions of migrants who have crossed the border, is peddling drugs, guns and women across the 50 states — from urban centers like New York and Chicago to Florida beaches and once-tranquil Middle America.
In Colorado, the gang even got a “green light” to shoot at cops, according to a federal memo.
“I would say that like six months ago, their organized presence wasn’t so obvious on the border,” a Texas law enforcement source told The Post. “But now they’re getting organized and they’re staying.”
