After announcing that the four migrants who were caught on video attacking two NYPD officers in Times Square last month had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations at a Greyhound bus station in Phoenix, three senior law enforcement officials are now saying that those were not the violent illegal border-jumpers ICE was looking for.
As BizPac Review reported, Fox News stated late on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources had confirmed that three of the migrants allegedly involved in the beating of the officers had been picked up in Arizona.
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“Four migrants involved in the mob beating in New York were believed to be headed to California after the incident,” Fox News reported. “Darwin Andres Gomez, 19; Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19; Wilson Juarez, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24, fled for California after being released without bail. Jhoan Boada, 22; Jandry Barros, 21, and Yohenry Brito, 24, were later apprehended.”
Citing three senior law enforcement officials, NBC News now reports, “The people in ICE custody do not match the identities or names of those involved in the New York attack.”
“Law enforcement officials in New York say the four people taken into custody may be in the country illegally and subject to removal but that they are not the four who were charged in connection with the assault,” according to the outlet.
The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who made the oh-so-progressive decision to release the indigent suspects without bail — was informed by Homeland Security Investigations on Tuesday “that the four individuals they took into custody were not affiliated with the New York City investigation,” a spokesperson for Bragg’s office told NBC News. “To date, we have not received any indication from federal authorities that they have detained anyone related to our case.”
As BizPac reported, though the shocking assault was caught on video for the world to see, Bragg initially claimed there was insufficient evidence to hold the illegal immigrants.
“While the video is shocking and disturbing, in order to secure convictions in the court of law, it is essential that we conclusively identify each defendant,” he stated last week. “In a court of law, our profound obligation is to make sure we have the right people charged with the right crimes. I don’t think New Yorkers want to charge the wrong person.”
Bragg changed his tune after one of the suspects flipped cameras the bird as he walked out of a New York City jail, sparking an avalanche of fury.
“Our office continues to work with law enforcement to bring everyone responsible for these heinous attacks to justice,” he said over the weekend. “We are simultaneously preparing to present charges to the Grand Jury on Tuesday and will update the public as soon as legally permissible. We will not rest until every person who assaulted a police officer in this awful attack is held accountable.”
“John Chell, the chief of patrol, said Friday that some of the men who had been released are believed to have fled New York by bus. The district attorney’s office said it was investigating those allegations,” NBC News reports. “The men are not required to stay in New York based on the terms of their release.”
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