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Video shows tiny robbers – including a smiling 11-year-old migrant linked to the Central Park robberies – fleeing the subway attack


Video shows tiny robbers – including a smiling 11-year-old migrant linked to the Central Park robberies – fleeing the subway attack

A video shows a group of young teenagers, including an eleven-year-old migrant boy, storming through a subway station in Queens shortly after a violent robbery.

In footage obtained exclusively by The Post, the Venezuelan migrant child can be seen squeezing through a turnstile on Tuesday evening wearing a white tank top and a broad grin.

Three other young offenders also ran through the turnstiles at the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue stop, near which they – led by the 11-year-old “main attacker” – allegedly attacked a 24-year-old passenger on the 7 subway line and stole his cell phone, police said.

A video obtained by The Post shows a mob of young teenagers rushing through a subway station in Queens. ^ “New York Post: The New York Post”.
Police arrested the eleven-year-old in Midtown. Viral News NYC

The little “attacker,” who was nabbed by police along with a 17-year-old boy in Midtown hours after the shocking robbery, is linked to a series of robberies in Central Park committed by migrant children, said John Chell, chief of patrol for the NYPD.

“At this point, we are prepared to call it a pattern of robbery by migrants,” he said.

The boy and his mother denied the allegations against him on Thursday when The Post visited the migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel where the family is staying.

“They didn’t catch him doing anything,” said the mother.

The mother said she had just been released from the hospital, where she had given birth to a girl five days ago – her fourth child, according to other residents.

A neighbor said the 11-year-old boy was “a bit rebellious” and disobedient.

“When the mother is sleeping, he leaves the room without permission,” he said.

“Of course it’s wrong, but he doesn’t want to listen to his mother. He doesn’t pay attention.”

The boy has been living in the migrant shelter with his family since last year, said Kataleya, 44, a Venezuelan asylum seeker.

Kataleya said the children in the home had not committed any crimes during their stay in Venezuela.

“They haven’t done that anywhere else…that’s what’s happening here,” she said.

She said the children are “locked up in the home all day right now” and “(when) they go out on the streets, I think that’s why they do these things.”

Sara, a 34-year-old Colombian migrant who lives in the shelter, said she did not know the boy but was speechless when she learned his age.

“He’s only 11 years old, right?” she said, shocked and open-mouthed, as she looked at a photo of the handcuffed teenager.

According to police, the 11-year-old Venezuelan boy is linked to robberies in Central Park committed by migrant children. ^ “New York Post: The New York Post”.

“There are a lot of kids smoking and drinking,” she said, pointing to her eyes and down, suggesting she had seen them smoking marijuana in the past. “They take turns and pass it around.”

A group of up to 12 boys or young migrants have been linked to about 10 robberies in Central Park, Chell said.

Police are investigating whether the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recruited young boys to commit robberies like the wave of Central Park robberies, a senior police official previously told The Washington Post.

The 11-year-old boy suspected of the subway robbery was caught on surveillance cameras using credit cards stolen from him during the park robberies, police officials said.

His mother denied that he was a gang member, saying, “He’s a child.”

The identity of the other teenagers in the subway footage was still unclear as of Thursday. Two teenagers who are linked to the attack are still at large.

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