Grinning Venezuelan woman arrested in connection with migrant beatdown of cops in Times Square
NY Post
A 20-year-old Venezuelan woman has been arrested in connection with the brutal migrant mob beating of two police officers in Times Square — as cops continued searching for two more suspects.
Edgarlis Vegas, from Brooklyn, was picked up by the police in Midtown Manhattan just after 8:30 a.m. Monday on a charge of assault on a police officer stemming from the Jan. 27 melee, according to the NYPD.
A native of Venezuela, Vegas is suspected of kicking a police lieutenant during the shocking, caught-on-video attack.
She was seen smiling wide in an image sent out by police searching for her before her arrest.
Vegas, who has no prior history of arrests, has become the 13th suspect detained over the cop beatdown that sent shockwaves through the city and sparked calls for the suspects to be deportated.
“Get them all and send them back,” Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters last month. “You don’t touch our police officers. You don’t touch anyone.”
