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Reputed Tren de Aragua gangsters nabbed in NYC felony drug raid — only to be cut loose with a slap on the wrist
nypost.com ^ | February 19, 2025 | Joe Marino, Jennie Taer and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 02/20/2025 8:29:52 PM PST by lowbridge

A pair of reputed migrant gangbangers were nabbed in a drug raid at a Queens auto shop — only to be cut loose without bail after prosecutors reduced the charges, The Post has learned.

Jose Tamaronis-Caldera, 27, and Richard Garcia, 33, both tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, were busted on felony drug and gun charges in a Feb. 5 raid at V&R Auto and Collision in Woodside, along with 54-year-old shop owner Rafael Nieves, according to sources and court records.

But once the case got to court, Queens prosecutors reduced the charges, hitting the migrants with a misdemeanor count of possession of an air gun — which let them walk without bail.

Nieves, who faced the most serious charges, had his drug and gun possession charges knocked down as well, with the new counts not eligible for bail under the state’s controversial criminal justice reforms.

Now all three are back on the streets.

“These are not misguided individuals,” a law enforcement source told The Post. “They’re documented members of a known violent criminal enterprise, a gang who has planted their flag here by entrenching themselves in narcotics, gun and human trafficking — and the best we can do is let them out?

“If we did our jobs with criminals, we wouldn’t have ICE scouring our streets for detainees.”

Tamaronis-Caldera and Garcia crossed the US border illegally in 2023, but were released into the country under former President Joe Biden’s lax border policies, federal immigration sources said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: altheadrysdale; arresttheprosecutors; defundthepolice; enemycombatants; ericadams; gangbangers; gangsters; illegalimmigration; immigration; migrants; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; queens; tda; trendearagua

1 posted on 02/20/2025 8:29:52 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

That’s New York City for you.


2 posted on 02/20/2025 8:42:45 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lowbridge

Trump has labeled them a terrorist gang. The judge should face repercussions.


3 posted on 02/20/2025 8:47:05 PM PST by BipolarBob (Before judging remember, we've all kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach before.)
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To: lowbridge

It’s just mind-boggling. The judge obviously doesn’t care about the safety of the public.


4 posted on 02/20/2025 8:50:40 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: lowbridge

Can we wall off NY now?


5 posted on 02/20/2025 8:57:14 PM PST by madison10
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To: BipolarBob

Arrest the judge.


6 posted on 02/20/2025 9:08:21 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: lowbridge
— only to be cut loose without bail after prosecutors reduced the charges, ...

Gonna need to start suing or filing charges against these prosecutors when the criminals they set free on society are picked up again for crimes committed elsewhere.

Charge them as co-conspirators to whatever crimes the perps have committed.

7 posted on 02/20/2025 9:53:26 PM PST by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us! )
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To: TigersEye

The Trump publicity machine needs to name, shame & blame all these corruptocrats. Loudly.


8 posted on 02/20/2025 10:13:33 PM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: lowbridge

New York City libtards are PROUD to be libtards and do utterly insane things like releasing dangerous criminals back into society to do even more and worse crimes. They are hopelessly insane.


9 posted on 02/20/2025 10:20:24 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: lowbridge

BTTT


10 posted on 02/21/2025 12:58:31 AM PST by nopardons
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To: EinNYC

Put a Federal Bounty on them and post their photos everywhere.

X$ dead. 3X$ alive.- Gitmo and waterboarding for 83 consecutive days.


11 posted on 02/21/2025 1:02:56 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: lowbridge

California Seattle Chicago and NY will take some time to overturn if they do at all. The radical politicians in control have a strong hold and the residence within are being held hostage


12 posted on 02/21/2025 2:21:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: lowbridge

wow. Freeing designated terrorists..bold move.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 4:11:05 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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To: Surrounded_too

5X$ dead. X$ alive.- Gitmo and waterboarding for 83 consecutive days. Gitmo is expensive.


14 posted on 02/21/2025 6:00:52 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: lowbridge

“...misdemeanor count of possession of an air gun”


It’s against the law in NYC to possess an air gun? (I get that they shouldn’t be here at all and should be deported).


15 posted on 02/21/2025 7:02:59 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: lowbridge

Our world is your oyster.


16 posted on 02/21/2025 8:18:56 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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