A crew of migrant pickpockets was nabbed plying their commerce on the Governor’s Ball Competition in Queens — and all three are again on the streets, in keeping with police and courtroom data.
Police responded to the three-day music pageant at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Friday night time on reviews of stolen telephones, the place eagle-eyed cops noticed the three Colombian immigrants — together with one girl who was caught grabbing a cellphone out of the sufferer’s purse, legislation enforcement sources stated.
Three migrants — Maritza Cortes Palomo, 35; Windi Paola Mendoza Echeverry, 34; and Maria Mendoza, 30 — had been arrested on the park and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny and fifth-degree felony possession of stolen property, an NYPD spokesperson stated Sunday.
Echeverry was additionally charged with resisting arrest, police stated.
In accordance with sources, cops from the NYPD Pickpocket Squad and Patrol Borough Queens North flooded the pageant in search of sticky-fingered crooks, which led to the Friday night time arrests.
One of many migrants had 4 telephones tucked in her waistband when she was arrested, sources stated.
Court docket data present that every one three of the alleged Governor’s Ball thieves had been arraigned on Saturday and Sunday and all had been launched with out bail pending return courtroom appearances.
All three girl advised police they reside in Florida.
Below the state’s controversial 2019 felony justice reforms the fees lodged in opposition to the three migrants weren’t eligible for bail.
Palomo and Mendoza are due again in courtroom on July 29, and Echeverry is scheduled for Aug. 12.
The Publish reported final 12 months that groups of pickpocketing asylum seekers had created a further headache for the NYPD, with sources figuring out at the very least 100 migrant offenders.
One 12 months earlier, the division created the pickpocket staff to fight the development.
