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'Baby-faced Tren de Aragua crew at NYC migrant shelter targets Times
Square — and they’re getting away with it'

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' 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.

Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, are
part of a dangerous asylum-seeking brat pack that has graduated from
purse snatchings to gunpoint heists targeting New Yorkers and tourists
alike, a top NYPD official told The Post.

But they’re managing to stay out of jail because of their ages and the
Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws, Detective Bureau Assistant
Chief Jason Savino said.

Tren de Aragua on social media.
6 Pistol-packing Tren de Aragua members have become a terror in Times
Square, targeting New Yorkers and tourists.
Obtained by the NY Post
“You have individuals that are brazen,” Savino said. “We know they have
access to guns, evident by the fact that they’ve done gunpoint robberies
and they’ve been brazen enough to showcase pistols in and around their
social media.

“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.

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“But as far as a true threshold, it’s been limited to shelters.”

Calling themselves “Los Diablos de la 42” — Spanish for “Little Devils
of 42nd Street” — the crew of about 21 gang members has been busted for
50 separate incidents, and yet not one is behind bars, Savino said.

“They committed the robberies [in] all the sexy places, in and around
Central Park, in and around Times Square, in and around transit,” he
said. “And targeting tourists.

Tren de Aragua youngsters in New York.
6 Police said a crew of nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua members, some as
young as 11, are terrorizing Times Square.
Obtained by the NY Post
Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.
6 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.
Helayne Seidman
“They kind of had a graduation of sorts, and a progression where
originally it started as snatches and then went to strong-armed
robberies, and then started brandishing knives in a pack format.”

Also worrisome for New York’s Finest is the possibility that an all-out
gang war could erupt between TdA and one of the Big Apple’s most
notorious gangs, the Latin Kings.

According to authorities, a dispute between the two gangs dates back
several years to the alleged murder of a TdA member by a Latin King,
with the feud still a sore point.

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.

Law enforcement sources said gang members hid among the millions of
asylum seekers who crossed the US border with Mexico since 2022, then
scattered throughout the country.

Diablos de la 42 on social media.
6 Young members of the Tren de Aragua crew known as Diablos de la 42 brag
about their exploits online.
Obtained by the NY Post
Members are told to get distinctive tattoos that mark them as members,
with the body art typically including anchors, clocks, crowns and
phrases that included the word “guerrero” — which means warrior in
Spanish but also pays homage to Hector “Nino” Guerrero, the leader of
the gang in Venezuela.

The gang tats also tend to feature the number “23” or NBA stars Michael
Jordan and LeBron James, both of whom wear the number on their jerseys,
while others include images of bulls, seemingly a shout-out to the
Chicago Bulls basketball team, a city where TdA has flourished, sources
said.

In New York, gang members exploited the city’s migrant shelter system,
running robbery crews, as well as trafficking drugs, guns and sex
workers under the noses of private security guards. according to
sources.

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.

The Diablos de la 42 members in Manhattan.
6 Police say members of the Tren de Aragua crew at the Roosevelt Hotel are
as young as 11.
Obtained by the NY Post
The group’s members hang out in packs with the younger recruits, and
will be there when the kids pull off a crime, perhaps steal a chain from
a passerby. Punishment for failing could mean being forced to lick the
floor of a city subway car or worse, Savino said.

Communication between crew members takes place online, where they
brazenly post exploits, he added.

“They use group chat on their government-issued phones, so you know that
that’s what you’re using. And the group app is titled according to their
gang, really, and they’re using their government-issued phones.”

Recruiters also pick youngsters, who are unlikely to be charged as
adults, to join their ranks.

In August, police suspected that an 11-year-old accused subway mugger
from Venezuela who was living at the Roosevelt was tied to TdA.

Tren de Aragua crew in Manhattan.
6 Tren de Aragua gang members calling themselves Los Diablos de la 42.
Obtained by the NY Post

Once in custody, the boy was given a juvenile card and released.

In addition to the young age of some of the gang members, the state’s
criminal justice reforms prohibited bail for misdemeanors and most
felonies, which means TdA suspects are often released, according to some
in law enforcement.

“It’s a product of bail reform,” Savino told The Post. “We tried to try
some in criminal court, somewhat unsuccessfully.”