‘Ganging’ up on Times Sq. cops
Two ID’d as Venez. mob thugs
At least two of the migrants charged in the shocking caughton-video mob attack on two NYPD cops in Times Square are members of the notorious Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, federal immigration officials told The Post on Thursday.
Wilson Juarez, 21, and Kelvin Servita-Arocha, 19, who are charged in the Jan. 27 attack on New York’s Finest, are being held without bail by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as reputed members of the bloodthirsty gang that has made a footprint in the Big Apple.
“Both unlawfully present Venezuelan citizens have been charged in conjunction with the violent gang assault carried out on two NYPD officers,” ICE spokeswoman Marie Ferguson said in an email, adding that they have been detained without bond.
“Both noncitizens have been identified as members of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization,” Ferguson said.
Juarez and Servita-Arocha were nabbed by immigration agents inside a Bronx apartment after cops executed an arrest warrant for another migrant wanted in the attack.
Servita-Arocha was arrested on an ICE warrant and will have his custody status reevaluated, while Juarez was picked up on a deportation order from a judge in El Paso, Texas, one year ago, ICE said.
The revelation comes as another migrant linked to the assault was ordered held without bail in the Big Apple, while yet another was hit with a $100,000 cash bail.
Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19, who was initially released without bail after the Jan. 27 beatdown, was shipped off to Rikers Island on Wednesday night after getting busted again for allegedly shoplifting at a Macy’s store in Queens.
“The rule of law and those who enforce it must be respected,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Thursday. “Otherwise brazen lawlessness will rule the day and our great city will descend into chaos.”
Hours later, 21-year-old Ulises Bohorquez became the eighth migrant arraigned in the attack on cops and was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail or a $250,000 bond.
“They have no regard for police officers,” NYC Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Hendry said. “They’re just trying to stay out in the streets of the city of New York and commit crimes.”
Hendry said the union will keep the heat on the suspects — and the prosecutors handling the cases.
“We’re going to hold this criminal justice system . . . accountable,” he said.
Police have identified at least one other migrant suspect who remains on the loose and another person of interest, with as many as 14 suspects in the beatdown of an
NYPD lieutenant and officer.
Eight of the suspects have been charged with assault on a police officer and obstructing government administration: Gomez-Izquiet, Bohorquez, Juarez and Servita-Arocha — as well as Yorman Reveron, 24; Yohenry Brito, 24; Jhoan Boada, 22; and Yarwuin Madris, 17.
It is unclear if ICE has identified any of the migrants other than Juarez and Servita-Arocha as Tren de Aragua members. NYPD sources said Thursday that an ongoing investigation has yet to definitively link any of them to the gang.