The well-received immigrant gang bangger was plagued by drug attacks at a Queens car store. Post learned just to cut off without bail after prosecutors reduced the charges.
Jose Tamaronis Caldera, 27, and Richard Garcia, 33, are both tied up by Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua, and 54 years in a clash with V&R Auto on February 5th at Woodside. He was also arrested on felony drug and gun charges. – Rafael Nieves, owner of the old shop, according to sources and court records.
But once the lawsuit went to trial, Queens prosecutors reduced the charges and attacked immigrants with misdemeanor charges of possession of an air gun.
Faced with the most serious charges, Niebbs also overthrew his drug and gun possession charges, and there was a new count of unqualified bail under the state's controversial criminal justice reforms.
Now all three are back on the streets.
“These are not misguided individuals,” a law enforcement source told the post. “They are members of known violent criminal enterprises, gangs who planted their flags in drugs, guns and human trafficking.
“If we had worked with criminals, we would not have washed our town with ice for detainees.”
Tamaronis Caldera and Garcia illegally crossed the US border in 2023, but were released to the country under former President Joe Biden's loose border policy, federal immigration sources said.
Tamaronis Caldera, who joined the United States with his wife and two children, told immigrant staff he would live in Durham, North Carolina, and Garcia was to stay in Savannah, Georgia.
Immigration sources said deported detainees were placed in Guardia.
The two immigrants lived in Roosevelt and Queens Crowne Plaza in Manhattan, as well as in the Big Apple Shelter, which was funded by taxes on the converted hotel, according to law enforcement sources.
Following the February 5 attack at Queen's Auto Shop, all three were charged with possession of a gun and drugs after officers found a Glock handgun and “a large amount of controlled substances.”
Sources say evidence seized in the attack included a massive cocaine stash, a .40 caliber Glock Gen 22 and more than $3,100 in cash, all suspects were left with a second weapon. was charged with criminal possession. Degree in criminal possession of controlled substances.
Under the state's bail reform law, judges can choose to set bail on gun charges based on several factors, including criminal history and the likelihood of a re-arrest.
But it never became that.
The next day, the two immigrants were charged with possession of a copycat handgun, according to criminal charges filed by the Queens DA office. The air guns recovered in the garage have been recovered.
Nieves' charges were defeated by fourth-degree possession of a weapon and seven-degree drug possession, and he was released on a conditional release but without bail, records show.
In an email Tuesday, a spokesman for the Queens District Attorney's Office noted that the charges filed in the complaint are not eligible for bail under the state's criminal justice reforms.
“The DA's office will review all evidence and allegations as guaranteed,” the spokesman said. “In this case, the weapons claimed against the defendant Nieves are for no-load firearms.
“Our office sought supervised release and the judge granted supervised release,” they said. “The charges against the other two defendants, Garcia and Tamaronis Caldera, are due to possession of an Air-CO2 pistol and are not eligible for bail.”
