The fugitive ringleader of an interstate immigrant moped gang that wreaked havoc in the Big Apple has been arrested by New York City police in the Bronx after three months on the loose, The Post has learned.
Victor Parra, 30, a ruthless gang tycoon who trafficked stolen goods to the Brotherhood from the five boroughs of Florida. – The South American contacts were arrested last week for riding a moped without a helmet and are currently in custody, law enforcement officials said Monday.
Officials said the scooter had a Texas license plate.
Parra and Franco Alexander Peraza Navas were picked up by New York’s Finest newspaper in February and allegedly ran the operation from their Bronx apartment until investigators dismantled the ring.
“Everyone wants to downplay the quality of life and downplay lower-level enforcement, but that’s how we can create a safe and orderly society,” said a law enforcement official. .
“We are cracking down on minor violations such as helmet laws. [state Vehicle and Traffic Law], which will help bring in bigger fish,” the source said. “We caught the bad guy.”
Officials said Parra, a Venezuelan immigrant, fled the city after police threatened him with illegal activities, hiding out in Chicago and Miami before returning to the five boroughs.
The gangster was so cocky that Navas boasted to police after his arrest, “Never in a million years did I think you’d get me,” sources told the Post at the time.
“It’s much bigger than me,” the suspected immigration fraudster told detectives.
Motorcycle crew involved in robberies in New York City, New Jersey, Yonkers, Florida – Navas was involved in two car robberies and six gunpoint robberies before being arrested Dec. 17 on a shoplifting racket at a Macy’s department store in Yonkers.
Parra and Navas allegedly frequently traveled to the Sunshine State to unload stolen goods.
Authorities say the goods are fenced through a Texas-based company owned by a Venezuelan husband-and-wife team, whose proceeds are linked to lavish spending, including the construction of a swimming pool to be installed in Colombia. the source said.
The crew is also suspected of illegally smuggling immigrants into the United States to join robbery rings.
Some of the gang’s robberies were caught on disturbing surveillance footage.
Parra is charged with possession of stolen property and other charges and is being held at Rikers Island on $50,000 bail or $100,000 bail, according to online records.
Two other people who were riding the moped when he was arrested were released without charge.
