Two unlawful immigrants charged in NYC taking pictures of off-duty CBP officer

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Two unlawful immigrants had been charged within the taking pictures of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in New York City , authorities introduced on Thursday.

Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez and Cristian Aybar Berroa — each from the Dominican Republic — had been arrested after the taking pictures at Fort Washington Park on Saturday.

Mora Nunez, 21, was charged with one depend of "possession of ammunition by an unlawful alien," which carries a most sentence of 15 years in jail, and Aybar-Berroa, 22, was charged with accent after the actual fact, which carries a most sentence of seven and a half years in jail, in accordance with Interim U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton and Homeland Safety Investigations Particular Agent in Cost of the New York Area Workplace Ricky J. Patel.

"As alleged, these defendants entered and spent years in our nation illegally, and their legal exercise culminated in Saturday night time’s near-deadly assault on one in every of our personal," Patel mentioned in a press release.

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Cristian Aybar Berroa, left, and Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez have been charged following the taking pictures of an off-duty CBP officer in New York Metropolis on Saturday. (Division of Homeland Safety)

Mora Nunez allegedly opened fireplace on an off-duty CBP officer in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, hanging the officer within the face and proper arm. The officer returned fireplace, hitting Mora Nunez earlier than he fled on a bike pushed by Aybar-Berroa, who transported the alleged gunman to a hospital.

Aybar-Berroa later allegedly tried to do away with the clothes he was sporting in the course of the taking pictures as a result of it was bloody. He additionally spoke to one in every of Mora Nunez's relations about needing to do away with the suspected shooter's bloody garments.

Each suspects entered the U.S. illegally and are topic to orders of elimination from the U.S., officers mentioned.

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Each suspects entered the U.S. illegally and are topic to orders of elimination from the U.S. (Getty Photographs)

A number of sources inside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement beforehand informed Fox Information that the pair are believed to be the identical males caught on video in an armed theft of a enterprise in Leominster, Massachusetts, in February.

Aybar-Berroa additionally has a legal historical past in New York Metropolis that features arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in Could 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officers mentioned.

The Division of Homeland Safety mentioned that after the April 2024 arrest and "regardless of an lively ICE detainer, the New York Metropolis Division of Corrections launched Berroa again onto NYC streets."

He was additionally arrested by the New York Metropolis Police Division in February of this 12 months for second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving and for driving with no license, in accordance with DHS.

Mora Nunez allegedly opened fireplace on a CBP officer in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, hanging the officer within the face and proper arm. (AP Picture/Eric Homosexual, File)

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"On June 12, 2025, Berroa pled responsible to petit larceny on the Bronx County Supreme Court docket. This plea was made in consolidation of all his earlier arrests, and he was conditionally discharged and allowed to roam the streets of NYC," DHS beforehand mentioned. "A decide ordered Berroa a closing order of elimination on January 3, 2023."

"He was arrested eight occasions between March and April 2024 for grand larcenies and robberies involving a scooter within the Bronx," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned on Monday. "He is additionally a suspect in no less than 4 further circumstances. He entered this nation illegally by Texas in 2022."