MIGRANT CHARGED IN COP SHOOTING ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE HE WAS ENLISTED FOR VENEZUELAN GANG'S NYC ROBBERY CREW: SOURCES

The 19-year-old migrant charged with shooting two NYPD cops allegedly told police he was recruited by a violent Venezuelan gang’s Big Apple “coordinator” to join a crew of “snatch and grab” moped thieves, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.

Bernardo Raul Castro Mata — who illegally entered the US last July in Texas — allegedly said he was encouraged to get distinctive tattoos to show his allegiance to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang, the sources said.  The “coordinator” for the brutal street gang provides its members in New York City with mopeds, used in lucrative cellphone robberies, he told police, according to the sources. Video, photos, and more at Migrant charged with shooting NYPD cops was recruited to join NYC robbery crew: sources (nypost.com)

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