Gun-toting Bronx migrant squatter — and suspected member of Tren De Aragua gang — busted by ICE

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Gun-toting Bronx migrant squatter — and suspected member of Tren De Aragua gang — busted by ICE

A suspected member of Venezuela’s Tren De Aragua gang who was busted with a crew of gun-totting migrant squatters in a Bronx apartment is now in the custody federal immigration authorities.

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Gun-toting Bronx migrant squatter — and suspected member of Tren De Aragua gang — busted by ICE​

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Published April 5, 2024

Updated April 5, 2024, 6:39 p.m. ET










One of the alleged gun-toting Bronx migrant squatters — a suspected member of Venezuela’s Tren De Aragua gang — was taken into the custody of federal immigration authorities on Friday, officials said.
Yerbin Benjamin Lozada Munoz was one of five suspects released without bail by Bronx judges after they were busted by the NYPD in March inside a borough apartment with a cache of guns and drugs, according to authorities.
On Monday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Lozada was busted in Nassau County, Long Island, on felony charges of grand larceny in the fourth degree.
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Yerbin Benjamin Lozada Munoz was arrested on Friday. ICE
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Lozada will remain in custody pending removal proceedings, the statement read. James Keivom

ICE said it lodged an immigration detainer with the Nassau County Jail, which was honored, and that their agents arrested Lozada during a traffic stop on Friday.

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Lozada will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings, the agency’s statement read.

He first entered the US at Eagle Pass, Texas, in October 2022, but was released by Border Patrol due to overcrowding at the Central Processing Center in El Paso, ICE said.
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He first entered the US at Eagle Pass, Texas in October 2022, officials added. Matthew McDermott
Lozada and seven others were arrested by the NYPD on March 27 after one of them allegedly pointed a 9 mm CZ pistol at someone on the Bronx property they commandeered, police said at the time.
Lozada and three others were cut loose on supervised release following their respective hearings. Among them was the alleged gunman, Hector Desousa-Villalta – despite prosecutors requesting $150,000 cash or $450,000 bond, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Two of the other alleged squatters – Yoessy Pino Castillo and Jefferson Orlando Abreau – were released on their own recognizance, court records showed.

“Our New York law is not favored to safety. Because of squatter rights, one month they live there, you cannot take them out until processing, and the process takes year after year,” the Bronx landlord of the property the eight men took over told The Post on Thursday.
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He was subsequently released into the US due to overcrowding, ICE said. Matthew McDermott
The landlord claimed that Lozada and the others shacked up in the basement apartment starting in August – and never paid a single month’s rent.
Once, when he called the cops on them, the squatters drew their fingers across their throats right in front of the officers – who admitted they couldn’t do anything, he claimed.
“I’ve been suffering, I’ve been scared. The neighbors are all scared they tell me. I install cameras they disconnect all the cameras. I finally got them all out and lock the door and they break the window and go back in,” he said.
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Lozada and seven others were arrested by the NYPD last week when one of them pointed a 9 mm CZ pistol at someone on the Bronx property they commandeered, police said at the time. NYPD
Police said they found four guns on the property when they arrested the group last month.
Desousa-Villalta and Javier Alborno, both also of Venezuela, were allegedly found with handguns on them when police arrived.
The authorities also turned up three extended magazines, a box of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine, police officials said.



Locals complained that the group terrorized the neighborhood.

“They wake me up at 2 a.m.,” local Alfred Munoz complained.

Another neighbor claimed the crew was running some shady scheme from inside the freeloaded apartment.

“Their operation was sophisticated, and looked like they knew what they were doing,” she said.