Migrant repeat offenders viciously attack cops during bust for ransacking NYC Target: police
NY Post
Two migrants with rap sheets were busted for attacking a cop who tried to stop them and four others from shoplifting at an Upper East Side Target, cops and police sources said Tuesday.
Yusneiby Machado, 23, and Brayan Freites, 21, were among the group of six migrants who allegedly yanked $82 in items off displays inside the store on Third Avenue near East 70th Street on April 2, the sources said.
They left a trail of destruction as they snatched up a gaming light, a backpack, tools and assorted grub including Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Doritos, strawberries and bottled waters, cops and sources said.
When responding cops from the NYPD’s 19th Precinct stopped the crew in their tracks, Machado and Freitas allegedly wrestled, shoved, slapped and pushed them in an attempt to resist, according to the sources.
The wild struggle left one officer with swelling, redness and pain on his left arm, cops said.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.
