Two alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers who had been busted by the NYPD have been deported to El Salvador’s infamous hellhole jail — regardless of New York Metropolis’s sanctuary legal guidelines.
Carlos Chivico Medina, 24, was nabbed in a large drug ring bust in November, and Miguel Vaamondes Barrios, 42, was picked up in final April as a part of a raid on squatters at Bronx residence.
Each had been on a leaked checklist of deportees flown to El Salvador’s terrorism confinement middle (CECOT) earlier this month underneath the Alien Enemies Act — which President Trump invoked to make it simpler to kick out members of the violent Venezuelan jail gang.
It’s not clear how Immigrations and Customs Enforcement brokers took custody of them, since New York Metropolis’s sanctuary legal guidelines strictly restrict what data the NYPD and town’s Division of Correction can share the feds.
The Division of Homeland Safety didn’t reply to a request for touch upon Monday.
The Trump administration transported 260 unlawful migrants to CECOT earlier this month, the place they had been seen in dramatic video exhibiting the deportees in shackles with their heads down.
Barrios, 42, was busted final spring together with eight different suspects, who had been discovered squatting in a trashed Bronx house they full of weapons — together with one so-called “ghost gun” — in addition to three prolonged magazines, a field of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine combined with cocaine, in keeping with cops.
Barrios was charged with prison possession of a weapon, prison possession of a managed substance and appearing in a fashion injurious to a toddler for his alleged position within the migrant squatter gang, police stated.
On the time he was additionally wished for retail theft and shoplifting prices in each Pennsylvania and New York.
ICE lodged a detainer request to take custody of him, however sanctuary legal guidelines prohibit NYC officers from handing over all however probably the most violent suspects.
ICE later raided the Bronx home following The Submit’s reporting and picked up three of Barrios’ friends. Barrios, nevertheless, was nonetheless cooling his heels in Rikers pending a bail listening to on the time.
The opposite suspected gang member arrested NYC, Medina, was busted in a serious NYPD takedown of a drug and gun ring within the Bronx in November.
Medina, who was beforehand arrested in 2023 on shoplifting prices, was one in every of 15 members of the gang picked up in a be a part of raid by New York’s best and federal Homeland Safety Investigations brokers, in keeping with cops.
Alleged gang members on the El Salvador flight manifest made headlines for crimes in different cities as properly, in keeping with the checklist, which was obtained by CBS Information.
Among the many 238 suspected Tren de Aragua members flown to CECOT was Wilker Guiterrez Sierra, who was arrested in February for allegedly finishing up a violent knifepoint assault on a 49-year-old man using a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) prepare.
There have been additionally two migrant males, Idenis Alexander Sanchez-Paredes, 22, and Wilfredo Jose Mata-Fornerino, 37, who had been arrested for allegedly operating a intercourse trafficking brothel in Tennessee on the flights.
That flight, approved by the Trump administration underneath the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, has kicked off a large authorized battle.
However US District Choose James Boasberg ordered the administration to show the planes round and to right away halt the usage of the legislation to deport migrants. It was final invoked throughout World Warfare II to justify the internment of Japanese nationals and others who had been deemed to be a safety threat.
The flights adopted Trump’s designation of Tren de Aragua as a overseas terrorist group to permit the feds to extra simply arrest and deport members of the Venezuelan jail gang.
Additionally stated to be on the flights was baby-faced alleged Tren de Aragua gangbanger Nixon Azuaje-Perez, 19, who allegedly making an attempt to cover the proof of an tried homicide in Aurora, Colorado, over the summer season,
His fellow Tren de Aragua ganbanger Henry Javier Vargas, 32, who was arrested at an house complicated taken over by the brutal gang in Aurora, Colorado, in January and charged with extortion, was additionally named on the leaked checklist.
