The New York Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is searching for a man suspected of groping a 5-year-old girl near a government-funded immigrant shelter in Midtown Manhattan.
Local New York news source 1010 WINS reports that the girl and her mother who has not been identified by officials was a resident of the New York City-funded immigrant shelter at the old Roosevelt Hotel.
A representative from the New York Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information confirmed the investigation to Fox News Digital. A representative told Fox News Digital that the incident happened approximately one block from the Roosevelt Hotel at 5th Avenue and 46th Street. At approximately 7:00 p.m. December 24.
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Police officers took security measures. As evacuees lined up outside the Roosevelt Hotel To wait to enter a shelter in New York, Aug. 2 Nov. 2023 (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The representative declined to provide any information. about the identity of the suspect It was not said if he was also a resident of the Roosevelt Hotel Immigrant Shelter. However, according to 1010 WINS, the suspect knew the girl and her mother.
The radio station reported that after being accused of groping the woman She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
The Roosevelt Hotel has been dubbed by some as the It was dubbed “modern-day Ellis Island” and was converted into an immigrant shelter and processing center by the City of New York in May 2023 amid an influx of immigrants into the city. The hotel became the center of most immigrant gang activity in New York City. This has resulted in violence and crime being reported in the area.
Juvenile illegal immigrant gang members behind the robbery spree are staying out of jail because of their old age.
A still image from a social media video shows a juvenile member of Train de Aragua. based at the Roosevelt Hotel who is accused of committing a series of robberies in nearby Times Square. (Received from the New York Post)
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The New York Police Department has not specified whether the suspect they are looking for is a member of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang or any other gang. Tren de Aragua has a heavy presence in the vicinity of the hotel.
On Dec. 1, on Sept. 5, 17-year-old Yeremi Colino, an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua-affiliated Diablos de la 42 (Devils of 42nd Street) gang, was stabbed to death during what is believed to be a confrontation. with Rival gang
Another immigrant, 18-year-old Alan Magalles Bello, was also stabbed next to Colino but survived.
