INVADER NEWS: Baby-Faced ‘Little Devils’ Migrant Gang Runs Amok in NYC Thanks to Lax State Laws: ‘No consequences’; Tren de Aragua’s ‘Little Devils’ Poster Child Busted After Allegedly Attacking Disabled Teen
Baby-faced ‘Little Devils’ migrant gang runs amok in NYC thanks to lax state laws: ‘No consequences’:
They keep getting busted, but it’s the cops who are handcuffed.
The pint-sized migrant punks who ganged up on an autistic teenager on Staten Island this month continue to run amok in the Big Apple — because the state’s lax laws are putting up barriers for the NYPD.
The cowardly baby-faced goons in “Diablos de la 42,” an underage offshoot of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, have racked up dozens of felony busts over the past three years, but continue to roam the streets because they’re too young to be locked up under the law.
“We’re not talking petty larceny, and he’s not stealing a stick of gum,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told The Post this week. “We’re talking robberies, we’re talking felonies, we’re talking stabbings. And there’s really no recourse.
“You know, there’s no consequences,” the chief said.
One teen terror has been so mischievous that he’s been dubbed the poster boy for the gang, whose name translates to “Devils of 42nd Street” for their reign of terror in Midtown Manhattan.
The troublesome 15-year-old has more than a dozen busts on his rap sheet — and it took the May 5 attack on the disabled teen at the Staten Island Mall to finally get him locked up on Wednesday.
Yet, he had been loose on the streets for months despite repeated busts for robbery and assault — the uncomfortable norm for dozens of other underage migrant marauders who know they’re gonna walk, law enforcement sources said.
One cocky Diablo bunch nabbed for ganging up on cops in Times Square this month was so brazen that they flashed gang signs from inside an NYPD stationhouse on pics posted to social media.
And cops were investigating an armed robbery in Lower Manhattan shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday — with the 15- and 17-year-old suspects, believed to be part of the gang, snatching a sneaker at gunpoint from another teenager before running off.
The crew, which law enforcement sources said now consists of about 40 minors, are largely migrants from Venezuela who were part of a wave of asylum seekers who began flooding the five boroughs in 2022, sources said.
Cops have busted Diablos as young as 11 for a rash of assaults and robberies in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, the sources said — with the crimes typically involving groups of young migrants who gang up on vulnerable victims like the 16-year-old autistic boy at the mall. —>READ MORE HERE
Tren de Aragua’s ‘Little Devils’ poster child busted after allegedly attacking disabled teen:
The poster child for Tren de Aragua’s baby-faced gang farm system was busted yet again Wednesday — this time for allegedly robbing a 16-year-old autistic boy on Staten Island, police sources told The Post.
The pint-sized Venezuelan vandal, who has at least a dozen busts on his rap sheet despite being just 15, is believed to be part of the “Little Devils” crew of young migrant gangbangers terrorizing the Big Apple.
Their notorious punk is now charged with second-degree robbery after cops nabbed him in a May 5 attack at the Staten Island Mall.
The baby-faced Venezuelan migrant was picked up by cops Wednesday in connection to a violent robbery.
“It makes me sick these kids are still here,” the autistic victim’s mother said Wednesday. “They should have been deported a long time ago. I had to keep my son home for a week because he was so scared.
“He’s terrified that he’s not safe from this gang,” she griped. “If they’d been deported, my son wouldn’t have been jumped.”
The tiny terror and his crew are members of “Diablos de la 42” — or Devils of 42nd Street — an underage offshoot of Tda, the violent Venezuelan gang that has established a foothold in tax-funded Big Apple shelters.
“Short of murder, there is no mechanism to hold juvenile offenders accountable,” one law enforcement source griped.
“The individuals responsible for these crimes against some of the most vulnerable individuals — the disabled,” the source said. “They’re responsible for victimizing dozens, and it’s a revolving door.”
“Short of murder, there is no mechanism to hold juvenile offenders accountable,” one law enforcement source griped.
“The individuals responsible for these crimes against some of the most vulnerable individuals — the disabled,” the source said. “They’re responsible for victimizing dozens, and it’s a revolving door.”
The NYPD has identified about 40 documented members of the Diablos, with 30 “associates” as young as 11 who help carry out mob robberies and assaults in Midtown and beyond, according to sources.
“They’re building quite the criminal resume,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Wednesday. “The first five, six robberies they commit, there’s no consequences. But they are steadily building a substantial criminal resume.
“They’re cowards. They won’t do anything one-on-one,” the chief added. “That’s their motive — wolfpack robberies against soft targets.”
But because they are minors, they typically get little more than a slap on the wrist under New York State’s lenient juvenile justice laws. —>READ MORE HERE
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