New York City police arrested a group of illegal immigrant thieves linked to a Venezuelan gang responsible for numerous robberies and a violent attack on NYPD officers.
Mayor Eric Adams, along with police officials, condemned the assaults and emphasized the need to combat organized crime.
The crackdown followed concerns about rising migrant-related crimes, including a 92% increase in moped-related thefts.
“Those who think they’re gonna come to our country, break our laws, assault our cops – that was not only an assault on an individual – that was an assault on our system of public safety,” Adams said. “They’re gonna use an organized method to commit crimes? This can’t happen.”
“Over the weekend we made a significant arrest with a couple migrants doing a couple phone snatches,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said. “It was part of a big citywide pattern, 62 events of people… women getting their pocketbooks and phones snatched.”
“He’s the big target,” NYPD Inspector Nicholas Fiore said of one particular leader. “He’s caused a lot of problems in New York City. Hopefully, we’ll grab him when we get some headway on this.”
“Big impact on crime, this migrant Venezuelan crew that’s preying on our city,” Chell said. “We cannot have this anymore. We’ve gotta stop it.”
“It coincides with when the migrants came in,” Chell said. “It comes out of Times Square. It’s affecting four out of five boroughs in our city.”
Criticism emerged over the release of assault suspects without bail, leading to calls for tougher prosecution and detention policies.
“Certainly an assault on a police officer is bail eligible,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said. “There are over 100 crimes that also can lead to deportation, and so that is also something I want to have a conversation with the district attorney about – his options here.”
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