Venezuelan migrant gang 'attack cops trying to stop them ransacking NYC Target,' with soft-touch judge subsequently ignoring prosecutor's pleas and freeing one without bail

Two serial-criminal Venezuelan migrants attacked NYPD officers as they tried to stop their gang from ransacking a Target store, according to officials.

Yusneiby Machado, 23, and Brayan Freites, 21, are among six migrants accused of trying to steal $82 worth of items at the Upper East Side store on April 2, as reported by the New York Post.

The group allegedly took a gaming light, tools, a backpack and snacks including Doritos, Fruit Loops and water bottles.

When police tried to stop the crew, Machado and Freitas reportedly wrestled and shoved officers in an attempt to resist arrest.

A third suspect who has not been caught then allegedly tried to throw rocks at the officers but did not hit any. 

Yusneiby Machado, 23, and Brayan Freites, 21, are among six migrants accused of trying to steal $82 worth of items at the Upper East Side store on April 2

Cops told the Post an officer was left with 'swelling, redness and pain on his left arm.'

The officer was reportedly taken to the hospital, treated and released. 

Machado and Freites, who both have previous records with cops, are charged with robbery, assault, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, criminal possession of stolen property, disorderly conduct and harassment.

But Machado was freed without bail by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Wiener, despite prosecutors' request that she be held on $10,000 bail.

Wiener ordered Freites held on $3,000 bail or $9,000 bond.

The pair's suspected co-conspirators are named as Sebastian Jaramillo, 22, Michael Sanchez, 31, and Henry Zambrano, 19.

They are all charged with robbery and disorderly conduct and were released without bail.

Sources told The Post that the three suspects live at the Ward’s Island shelter.

New York City Police Department commissioner Edward Caban appeared on NBC News NOW’s Top Story with Tom Llamas on Tuesday to discuss the wave of unprovoked violence in the city.

Caban said crime is trending down in the city, but not quickly enough, due to repeat offenders.

'We're seeing that we're locking up the same people over and over again,' he said, adding that bail reform laws have been ineffective.

'We lock someone up and the district attorney puts bail on them, the judges let them go to walk our streets again... its a broken system,' the cop added.

While crime was down overall ion the first quarter of 2024, a series of highly publicized have made New Yorkers question the data.

Earlier this year, a video showing a group of migrants brawling with police in Times Square touched off a political furor. It also renewed debate over a long-standing New York City policy that limits cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities - so-called sanctuary city rules. 

Earlier this year, a video showing a group of migrants brawling with police in Times Square touched off a political furor and renewed debate over a long-standing New York City policy that limits cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities 

The surveillance footage, recorded January 27 outside a Manhattan homeless shelter, shows several men kicking officers on a sidewalk and trying to pry them off a man police had taken to the ground. 

Nobody was seriously hurt, but the video of officers being pummeled prompted waves of public outrage. Some of that fury has been directed at prosecutors and the court system after several of those arrested were freed from jail while awaiting trial.

Increasingly, New York City officials have aimed dire rhetoric at the tens of thousands of asylum seekers the city has put up in shelters and hotels over the past year. Some of the comments have dismayed immigration advocates, who say they are stirring up hatred over the actions of a few bad apples.

'A wave of migrant crime has washed over our city,' Police Commissioner Edward Caban said at a news conference about a Venezuelan man being sought in a series of cell phone robberies.

Adams has noted the vast majority of the nearly 175,000 migrants who have come to the city are law abiding. He said it would be wrong for 'any New Yorker to look at people trying to fulfill the next step on the American Dream as criminal.'

But in recent days, Adams has also shown a willingness to pull back on a set of laws that often block the city from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

'We need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony or violent act we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported,' he told a town hall meeting in February.