Youthful thugs from Tren de Aragua terrorize Times Square

A crew of gang members from the Tren de Aragua gang, operating out of a city-funded migrant shelter in Manhattan, has been brazenly executing armed robberies in Times Square, eluding law enforcement with alarming ease.

Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, have evolved from petty purse snatchings to armed heists targeting both New Yorkers and tourists, according to top officials from the NYPD.

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Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino highlighted the troubling trend, stating, “You have individuals that are brazen. 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.”

Identifying themselves as “Los Diablos de la 42” — Spanish for “Little Devils of 42” — this crew of approximately 21 gang members has been implicated in 50 separate incidents, yet astonishingly, not a single member has been incarcerated.

Savino noted, “They committed the robberies

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