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Two unlawful immigrants have been charged within the capturing of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in New York City, authorities introduced on Thursday.
Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez and Cristian Aybar Berroa — each from the Dominican Republic — have been arrested after the capturing at Fort Washington Park on Saturday.
Mora Nunez, 21, was charged with one rely of “possession of ammunition by an unlawful alien,” which carries a most sentence of 15 years in jail, and Aybar-Berroa, 22, was charged with accent after the very fact, which carries a most sentence of seven and a half years in jail, in response to Interim U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton and Homeland Safety Investigations Particular Agent in Cost of the New York Subject Workplace Ricky J. Patel.
“As alleged, these defendants entered and spent years in our nation illegally, and their felony exercise culminated in Saturday night time’s near-deadly assault on considered one of our personal,” Patel mentioned in an announcement.
SECOND SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CBP OFFICER SHOOTING HAS LENGTHY CRIMINAL PAST, DHS SAYS
Cristian Aybar Berroa, left, and Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez have been charged following the capturing of an off-duty CBP officer in New York Metropolis on Saturday. (Division of Homeland Safety)
Mora Nunez allegedly opened hearth on an off-duty CBP officer in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, placing the officer within the face and proper arm. The officer returned hearth, hitting Mora Nunez earlier than he fled on a bike pushed by Aybar-Berroa, who transported the alleged gunman to a hospital.
Aybar-Berroa later allegedly tried to do away with the clothes he was sporting through the capturing as a result of it was bloody. He additionally spoke to considered one of Mora Nunez’s relations about needing to do away with the suspected shooter’s bloody garments.
Each suspects entered the U.S. illegally and are topic to orders of elimination from the U.S., officers mentioned.
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Each suspects entered the U.S. illegally and are topic to orders of elimination from the U.S. (Getty Pictures)
A number of sources inside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement beforehand informed Fox Information that the pair are believed to be the identical males caught on video in an armed theft of a enterprise in Leominster, Massachusetts, in February.
Aybar-Berroa additionally has a felony historical past in New York Metropolis that features arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in Might 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officers mentioned.
The Division of Homeland Safety mentioned that after the April 2024 arrest and “regardless of an energetic ICE detainer, the New York Metropolis Division of Corrections launched Berroa again onto NYC streets.”
He was additionally arrested by the New York Metropolis Police Division in February of this 12 months for second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving and for driving with out a license, in response to DHS.
Mora Nunez allegedly opened hearth on a CBP officer in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, placing the officer within the face and proper arm. (AP Photograph/Eric Homosexual, File)
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“On June 12, 2025, Berroa pled responsible to petit larceny on the Bronx County Supreme Courtroom. This plea was made in consolidation of all his earlier arrests, and he was conditionally discharged and allowed to roam the streets of NYC,” DHS beforehand mentioned. “A choose ordered Berroa a remaining order of elimination on January 3, 2023.”
“He was arrested eight instances between March and April 2024 for grand larcenies and robberies involving a scooter within the Bronx,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned on Monday. “He is additionally a suspect in at the very least 4 extra circumstances. He entered this nation illegally by way of Texas in 2022.”
Fox Information’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
