In little more than a year, a once-obscure South American street gang has taken hold in the Big Apple, exploiting the migrant crisis to build a violent criminal enterprise from within the walls of city shelters.
A brutal crew of baby-faced Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers at a city-funded Manhattan shelter are pulling off armed robberies in Times Square — and they’re getting away with it, officials and sources said.
“This is the first formulated group that we found where this group of about 20 individuals that, in pack format, hang out every day, they post on social media, they boast about their crew,” the chief said. “You see little pockets in and around Times Square and in and around the shelters. “They committed the robberies all the sexy places, in and around Central Park, in and around Times Square, in and around transit,” he said. “And targeting tourists.Police said a crew of nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua members, some as young as 11, are terrorizing Times Square.The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown is the main intake center for migrants arriving in the Big Apple — and is the home base for a crew of Venezuelan gang members, according to police.
TDA, which grew out of the poverty and corruption that has long plagued Venezuela, established a criminal foothold in the five boroughs in little more than a year. The Diablos crew out of the Roosevelt Hotel is guided by an older gangbanger, who recruits youngsters to pull off robberies before bringing back the loot — sometimes as part of an initiation into the gang, sources said.Police say members of the Tren de Aragua crew at the Roosevelt Hotel are as young as 11 years old.The group’s gang members hang out in packs with the younger recruits, and will there the kids to pull off a crime, perhaps steal a chain from a passerby.
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