group of Venezuelan immigration He has previously been arrested on suspicion of robbing a Target store in New York City and later assaulting a police officer, the latest in a wave of immigrant crimes sweeping the Big Apple.
However, many of them are back on the streets after being released without bail.
According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Fox News Digital, six immigrants stole various items from the shelves of an Upper East Side store before being confronted by dispatched police on April 2 around 6:50 p.m. He is said to have pulled out the item and stuffed it into a stolen backpack.
Two of the suspects, Brayan Freites, 21, and Yusnavy Machado, 23, then allegedly attacked police officers who were resisting arrest.
At the time of this report, the group’s legal status was unknown.
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The immigrants who allegedly robbed the Target store are, from left, Yusnavy Machado, Brayan Fraites, and Sebastian Jaramillo, and below, from left, Michael Sanchez and Henry Zambrano. (New York Post and Google Maps)
According to the complaint, Fraites pushed one of the officers who tried to handcuff him and yelled in Spanish to Machado, a female accomplice, to flee the scene. That’s when Machado stepped between them and struck the officer in the head with his hand, the complaint says.
When the struggle spilled onto the sidewalk in front of the target, another suspect, who was still at large, threw a rock at responding officers, but missed, according to the complaint.
Both Machado and Fraites were taken into custody and charged with robbery, assault, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, possession of stolen property, disorderly conduct and harassment. new york post This was reported as a police story.
Machado was released on supervised release without bail despite a request from prosecutors for $10,000 bail, prosecutors told Fox News Digital. Prosecutors asked Mr. Fraites to post either $10,000 bail or $30,000 bail, and Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Weiner released him on $3,000 bail or $9,000 bail. ordered.
One police officer was hospitalized and treated for “severe pain” and a sprained wrist.
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A total of five migrants were arrested, but a sixth is yet to be arrested.
Three other immigrants, Sebastian Jaramiglio, 22, Michael Sanchez, 31, and Henry Zambrano, 19, also committed robbery and disorderly conduct, the newspaper reported, citing police. He was arrested and charged with the act. They were later charged with petty theft and possession of stolen property and released without bail. All three lived at Ward’s Island Shelter, Post sources said.
The report further states that the two suspects charged with the assault are also accused of previous crimes with Machado (who is seen in the mugshot with a broken heart tattoo on his neck), and that he was arrested in January. It added that she was arrested on the 18th for trespassing at an immigrant shelter from which she was discharged.
Machado was also charged with assault after he allegedly scratched a 34-year-old woman during an argument on East 124th Street last month, Post officials said.
Police say the group robbed a Target store on the Upper East Side. (Google Maps)
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After his arrest at Target, Fraites was charged in several other cases, including a trespassing charge for refusing to leave an immigrant shelter he was removed from in January and a shoplifting charge in December, Post sources said. states.
Meanwhile, Jaramillo was charged with assault in October for allegedly punching a 42-year-old man in the face at Grand Central Terminal, arrested for petty larceny the following month, and charged with grand larceny in March.
Sanchez was also arrested in New York City on three counts of petty theft and two counts of robbery.
Hundreds of immigrants are seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. (Luis C. Ribeiro, NY Daily News, via Getty Images)
