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New York Post
18-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Comey's cryptic shell post: Letters to the Editor — May 19, 2025
The Issue: An investigation into James Comey's Instagram post with shells arranged to read '86 47.' Let me be clear, I have no respect for former FBI Director James Comey ('Comey 'shore' is vicious,' May 16). When he announced in 2016 that the facts did not support charging Hillary Clinton for keeping a private e-mail server for government business in her home, he showed the world that in America, there are different rules for the politically connected and the poor. Advertisement In 2017, when he gave notes taken during conversations with President Trump to The New York Times, he probably broke the law himself. But the Trump administration should not criminally charge this clown now with making a threat or inciting violence by posting the numbers '86 47.' Charging someone with a crime because of what their speech might mean, as opposed to what certain speech definitely means, would be far from upholding free speech in America. Advertisement Joseph Jordan Butner, NC Comey posted a picture of seashells positioned to read '86 47.' He later claimed he hadn't known what that meant. The former director of the FBI, appointed by former President Barack Obama, claims he does not know what the term 86' means. Read that again. Advertisement Comey should be in jail. Paul Jablonski Cape Coral, Fla. The Post's Friday report on the James Comey incident made President Trump's eldest son sound like someone overreacting to a message that meant 'do not serve' or 'get rid of' in a restaurant. Apparently it's also mob code for 'kill' — instructions to take a victim eight miles out of town and bury him six feet under. Advertisement We can't possibly understand how Trump's family felt upon learning of the neatly arranged signal, but they definitely did not think it meant their father shouldn't be admitted to a restaurant. I hope The Post will have fuller reporting in the coming days. Dierdre Burgman Manhattan In the wake of former FBI Director James Comey's shell-formation 'discovery' in the sand, I hope he gets woken up at 3 a.m. by 30 armed FBI agents to take him in and search his house. Please, Attorney General Pam Bondi, eliminate the threat against President Trump. Mike Santavicca Yonkers Advertisement The Issue: A member of Diablos de la 42's alleged recent attack on a 16-year-old autistic boy. They may be too young to be jailed, but not too young to be booted out of the country ('Too young to be jailed,' May 15). Why do we have to put up with these ungrateful migrant criminals? These kids are nothing but future trouble. This illegal community must know that if you violate our laws, the entire family gets deported with no chance of return. Advertisement Susan Green Manhattan What an outrage. Why can't they be deported? I don't see any Democrats rushing to care about the poor autistic boy who these kids beat up and robbed. Advertisement I would send the Diablos de la 42 kids to CECOT. I bet they wouldn't be smirking and flashing gang signs then. Carol Meltzer Manhattan The Venezuelan gangbangers who continue to terrorize New Yorkers are taking full advantage of the laws enacted by the progressive idiots in our government. These laws protect them from prosecution, detention or getting shipped back to wherever they came from. Advertisement Radical changes need to be made to our existing laws, and the morons that put them in place to begin with need to be removed from office. Thomas Urban Wantagh Want to weigh in on today's stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@ Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Teens with possible Tren de Aragua ties rob man, 18, of one sneaker in Manhattan
A pack of teenagers with possible ties to local Tren de Aragua offshoot Little Devils of 42nd St. jumped an 18-year-old man in lower Manhattan and robbed him of a single sneaker, police sources said. The victim was walking near Whitehall and Pearl Sts. in the Financial District just before 4 p.m. when a gang of about 15 youths approached him, police said. One member of the pack menaced him with a knife while another flashed a gun, before some of the youths held him down and stole a sneaker off the victim's foot before running away, according to police. Cops are searching for the suspects, who were last seen running north along Whitehall St., police said. Police did not immediately have information on the type of sneaker that was stolen. At least some of the robbers are believed to have ties to Diablos de la 42 (Devils of 42nd St.), a youth offshoot of Tren de Aragua, according to police sources. Last week cops arrested a 12-year-old boy with purported Tren de Aragua ties for his role in a Times Square attack on a pair of NYPD police officers who were protecting two other kids from being robbed. The notorious Venezuelan gang has come under renewed fire amid President Trump's sweeping deportation agenda, with federal authorities recently announcing the arrests of more than two dozen New York City Tren de Aragua members on federal murder, racketeering, drug and sex-trafficking charges.
New York Post
16-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Insane progressive leniency keeps letting more young terrors skirt
Progressives and their insane leniency strike again. In Colorado, a prog prosecutor basically let a 15-year-old illegal immigrant walk after he killed a 24-year-old woman in a high-speed car crash. In New York, cops hauled in the 15-year-old poster boy for the Tren de Aragua farm team, Diablos de la 42 (Little Devils) for the robbery of a 16-year-old autistic boy on Staten Island. The alleged thug had been busted 12 times before — but, as a police source gripes 'short of murder, there is no mechanism to hold juvenile offenders accountable' in New York. What perfect progressive public-safety storms: lefty policies cascading to foster utter lawlessness. First: Neither hooligan should've been in the country in the first place, but President Joe Biden did the bidding of his party's left by waving in millions of 'asylum seekers' with little vetting and in blatant violation of the law, and the country will likely be years dealing with the impact. Second: Progressives refuse to let underage perps ever face adult punishment, and in practice impose no consequences at all. Thus the Colorado youth, a Colombian national, got just two years probation and 100 hours of community service for the July 2024 death of Kaitlyn Weaver — as long as he promised to go to school and obey the law in future. That's it, though he drove the car without a license and sped down recklessly down a 45 mph street at 90. The Little Devil poster kid, meanwhile, is believed part of a crew of about 40 behind numerous robberies and assaults in New York, per cops. But juveniles here get to run wild, law-enforcement officials fume, thanks to 'reforms' like the Raise the Age act, which keep teens under 18 from suffering anything more than wrist-slaps for all but the most heinous crimes. Other ridiculous laws, like cashless bail, and pro-criminal judges and prosecutors compound the problem. Weaver's dad, John Weaver, said he was expecting a full trial of the Columbian teen and for the district attorney to offer no concessions. But then lefty Amy Padden won election to the DA job, and rapidly handed the teen a sweetheart plea deal. 'Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day,' fumed Weaver, fighting back tears. 'Now I sit here today without a daughter.' The autistic boy's mom is also rightly outraged: 'It makes me sick that these kids are still here,' she seethed. Alas, the 'undeportable' criminals will remain roaming the streets and terrorizing the public, until America's progs change course. Or voters change them.
New York Post
15-05-2025
- New York Post
Baby-faced ‘Little Devils' migrant gang runs amok in NYC thanks to lax state laws: ‘No consequences'
They keep getting busted, but it's the cops who are handcuffed. The pint-sized migrant punks who ganged up on an autistic teenager on Staten Island this month continue to run amok in the Big Apple — because the state's lax laws are putting up barriers for the NYPD. The cowardly baby-faced goons in 'Diablos de la 42,' an underage offshoot of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, have racked up dozens of felony busts over the past three years, but continue to roam the streets because they're too young to be locked up under the law. 7 A mob of marauding migrant punks calling themselves 'Devils of 42nd Street' have run amok in the Big Apple. Obtained by the NY Post 'We're not talking petty larceny, and he's not stealing a stick of gum,' NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told The Post this week. 'We're talking robberies, we're talking felonies, we're talking stabbings. And there's really no recourse. 'You know, there's no consequences,' the chief said. One teen terror has been so mischievous that he's been dubbed the poster boy for the gang, whose name translates to 'Devils of 42nd Street' for their reign of terror in Midtown Manhattan. The troublesome 15-year-old has more than a dozen busts on his rap sheet — and it took the May 5 attack on the disabled teen at the Staten Island Mall to finally get him locked up on Wednesday. 7 A 15-year-old member of the Tren de Aragua underage crew has been busted over a dozen times and was still free. Obtained by New York Post 7 One cocky crew of migrant punks even flashed gang signs on social media from inside an NYPD precinct. Obtained by NYPost Yet, he had been loose on the streets for months despite repeated busts for robbery and assault — the uncomfortable norm for dozens of other underage migrant marauders who know they're gonna walk, law enforcement sources said. One cocky Diablo bunch nabbed for ganging up on cops in Times Square this month was so brazen that they flashed gang signs from inside an NYPD stationhouse on pics posted to social media. And cops were investigating an armed robbery in Lower Manhattan shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday — with the 15- and 17-year-old suspects, believed to be part of the gang, snatching a sneaker at gunpoint from another teenager before running off. The crew, which law enforcement sources said now consists of about 40 minors, are largely migrants from Venezuela who were part of a wave of asylum seekers who began flooding the five boroughs in 2022, sources said. Cops have busted Diablos as young as 11 for a rash of assaults and robberies in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, the sources said — with the crimes typically involving groups of young migrants who gang up on vulnerable victims like the 16-year-old autistic boy at the mall. 7 A 15-year-old member of Diablos de la 42 has become the poster boy for the migrant punks. 'It makes me sick these kids are still here,' the victim's mother said Wednesday. 'They should have been deported a long time ago. I had to keep my son home for a week because he was so scared.' The Diablos identify with their 'older brothers' in TdA, a violent gang that established a criminal foothold in the city by recruiting new members from inside tax-funded migrant shelters. Crews from both gangs have specialized in violent robberies, including grab-and-run scooter and moped robberies and armed robberies of retailers in the city. According to police stats, TdA and Diablos together have accounted for more than 400 arrests since the start of 2022 through the end of April this year — including nearly 120 busts for robbery, 82 for grand larceny and more than 50 for petty larceny. 7 The 15-year-old Venezuelan gangbanger has flaunted the law on social media and on the streets. Obtained by the NY Post 7 It took more than a dozen arrests before the 15-year-old migrant was ordered locked up this week. Gregory P. Mango Most of the crimes involved some form of assault, the data shows. 'You know, this goes for their older brothers, TdA as well,' Kenny said. 'Don't think that it's just a juvenile problem.' Albany's Raise the Age initiative was part of the sweeping criminal justice reforms that critics contend has led to a spike in crime in the Empire State. The statute, which was implemented in two stages in 2017 and 2018, raised the age of criminal responsibility in the state to 18, and allowed for criminal defendants to remain in juvenile facilities as old as the age of 21. Before, suspects as young as 16 could be automatically tried in adult criminal court. On the heels of Raise the Age, state lawmakers also adopted measures that prohibited judges from setting bail on nearly all criminal cases, save for the most violent felonies. 7 There are now about 40 members of 'Diablos de la 42,' with at least 30 'associates,' law enforcement sources said. Obtained by the NY Post Despite several tweaks spearheaded by Gov. Kathy Hochul, most crimes remain ineligible for bail. For New York's Finest, that means many of the migrant gangbangers they pick up are released without bail because their crimes don't qualify for bail under the statutes. For underage migrants, the ride is even sweeter. The teens are typically released to their parents with a future family court date — where the most they can get is a reprimand and a slap on the wrist.
American Military News
10-05-2025
- Politics
- American Military News
Times Square migrant gang linked to Tren de Aragua attacked NYPD with scooters, basketballs, bottles
A pair of NYPD cops jumped by a group of migrant gang members, including a 12-year-old boy, while trying to thwart a robbery in Times Square were struck with scooters, basketballs, bottles and makeshift weapons in a 'wolfpack'-style ambush, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. Police are still looking for at least six teens behind the Friday night attack at West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. The teens were members of Diablos de la 42, an offshoot of the notorious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua street gang. 'It's horrific enough to be a victim of a crime,' Adams said at a news conference on the wanted suspects Tuesday. 'When someone openly assaults a police officer you are attacking our symbol of safety. It cannot be tolerated.' New York City police have released images of three of the suspects still being sought, believed to be between ages 15 and 20. (New York City Police Department/TNS) The NYPD released images of three of the suspects still being sought, who appear to be between ages 15 and 20. As of Tuesday, five of the 11 attackers were in custody, police sources said. They range in age from 19 to 12. 'This was a planned attack that was carried out with intent,' NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. 'This is not a low-level crime. This is organized violence carried out by gang members that we have already taken off the streets for preying on New Yorkers. And now they're back, ambushing cops in Times Square. It's not a fluke. It's a system failure.' Adams and Tisch credited the NYPD's controversial gang database in helping detectives identify five of the suspects who were arrested within four days. 'You can't fight organized violence with blindfolds on,' Tisch said as she railed against the City Council's attempts to delete the database. 'It defies common sense that our city council is looking to abolish this database.' Advocates for the database's removal say it is made up almost entirely of Black and Hispanic New Yorkers, with names staying in the database far longer than they should. Cops called Diablos de la 42 a 'young farm team' of Tren de Aragua, who have weapons, flash gang signs and use emojis provided from the parent crew. The NYPD has identified 37 Diablos de la 42 gang members who are responsible for over 240 arrests, cops said. The NYPD has done several take-downs of Tren de Aragua and its splinter groups in the last year and taken several guns used by members off the street but they remain 'out there on Friday doing what they did,' Tisch said. 'We still have more work to do,' Tisch said. Two weeks ago, federal authorities announced more than two dozen New York City Tren de Aragua members, all migrants from Venezuela, had been been arrested on federal murder, racketeering, drug and sex trafficking charges. On Friday, the two cops were protecting three teens from being robbed by a dozen muggers when the gang members were caught on video pelting the officers with numerous objects about 7:30 p.m., Tisch said. Neither officer was seriously harmed. Three of the teen muggers were arrested Saturday. A fourth surrendered to police on Sunday and cops arrested the fifth suspect Tuesday morning. The oldest suspect is 19-year-old Yeterxon Jose Mijares-Hernandez, a migrant staying at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown. Cops charged Mijares Hernandez with attempted assault, obstruction of government administration, and riot. Four out of the six teens still being sought have been identified, cops said. All of them have been repeatedly arrested before, Tisch said. A 17-year-old suspect was also charged with obstructing governmental administration, rioting and menacing. A 16-year-old boy was additionally charged with attempted assault of a police officer and reckless endangerment. Charges against the 12-year-old and a 14-year-old boy weren't clear. The 12-year-old boy made headlines last year when he was arrested at age 11 in connection with a string of Central Park cellphone robberies, police sources said. As cops track down the remaining members, the NYPD is also investigating how a teen gang member was able to smuggle a cellphone into a 'juvenile room' used to hold minor offenders and take selfies of himself and his friends flashing gang signs, Tisch said. Police said that Tren de Aragua members operate in large groups and surround their victims before mugging them. Many of the suspects are young teens, something advocates tend to zero in on above the rights of the victims, Adams said. 'If you are 15 and decide to stab someone I don't want to hear people tell me it's a young person,' Adams fumed. 'When you're a victim of a crime the last thing you're thinking about is the age of the person.' ___ © 2025 New York Daily News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
