Migrant who ganged up on NYPD cops in Times Square nabbed by ICE after slap-on-the wrist jail sentence
One of the migrants who kicked a cop during the now-infamous Times Square brawl has been nabbed by federal immigration agents after serving a slap-on-the-wrist jail sentence for the assault.Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel — part of a gang of unruly thugs involved in the beatdown of two NYPD officers cops on Jan.27 — served only three-quarters of a one-year sentence.But he found the feds waiting when he was released on Oct.
10, officials with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said this week.ICE didn’t get a helping hand from city authorities, sources said — the feds tracked the case through media reports and social media posts.
“Gomez-Izquiel is a criminal and threat to the public servants, residents and businesses of New York City,” New York City Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo said in a statement Wenesday.“We will not allow our communities to become safe havens for noncitizens who refuse to abide our laws.”The Venezuelan migrant pleaded guilty to his role in the assault in July but received a lenient “city year” sentence — a 364-day term that is part of the state’s soft-on-crime reforms.The “1 Day to Protect New Yorkers Act” was one of several moves by state lawmakers to curtail harsher penalties for criminal suspects in the state first enacted in 2019.The sentence of one day short of a year allows jailed suspects to qualify for earlier release and is at least in part designed to allow misbehaving migrants to get early release and to dodge deportation.
City inmates are often released after serving three-fourths of their sentences, as Gomez-Izquiel was.“The ‘city year’ was a way for them to circumvent immigration laws,” a Department of Homeland Security source told The Post.“That’s what they did.
They were aiming to shield immigrants from deportation.“When it involves violence, there’s no way you should give them a city year.”Officials with the city Department of Correction said Gomez-Izquiel was locked up from...