Illegal migrants use saws to break into LI biz then again to cut off monitoring bracelets after being sprung without bail: Damn disgrace

A group of violent illegal migrants used saws to break into a Long Island jewelry store, then relied on the trusty tool again after being busted — to cut off their ankle monitors and flee, officials said Tuesday.“It’s a damn disgrace,’’ fumed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, ripping what he called the state’s botched immigration and bail system for springing the accused criminals in the first place.Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said, “Whether we see them again is anybody’s guess — but that is the reality of our criminal justice system.”The six “thugs’’ — part of the so-called “South American Theft Group’’ of “crime tourists’’ terrorizing the US from California to Colorado to New York — launched their wild local break-in around 3 a.m.Thursday, authorities said.Armed with saws, they first cut a hole in the roof of the florist shop Florique on Jericho Turnpike in Woodbury in Nassau, cops said.The criminals — five Chileans and a Venezuelan — used radio jammers to stop police radios from operating in the area while they worked, officials said.The crooks then carved a hole through the shop’s adjoining wall with Elegant Jewelers and tried to break into its safe, only to set off an alarm and flee in a dark gray Dodge Durango back to their rented AirBnB on Lake Drive in Huntington, police said.Authorities quickly tracked the six suspects down and took them into custody.“All six defendants are in the United States illegally.

Two of them illegally crossed,’’ noted Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.The group was charged with two counts of burglary in the third degree and two counts of criminal mischief in the second degree — both D felonies that are not eligible for bail under New York’s failed criminal-justice reforms, authorities said.Five of the suspects were freed after their arraignments Friday — with the sixth held only because he had an open theft-related warrant on him in P...