A mob of migrants are facing gang assault charges after allegedly pummeling two NYPD cops outside a Queens hotel shelter, prosecutors and law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Four men were busted after they attacked two of New York’s Finest shortly before 4:30 a.m. Monday as the cops were checking on three unattended children outside the converted Long Island City hotel that now houses asylum seekers, according to authorities.
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“In an effort to check on the children’s safety, they approached a nearby group of adults to make sure that the children were being supervised,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.
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Law enforcement sources told The Post that all four suspects – Juan Munoz, 25; Alejandro Munoz, 42; Karina Navarro-Chavez, 42; and Miguel Chiluisa, 23 –are migrants housed at city-funded sites.
All four were arraigned Tuesday before Judge Edward Daniels on charges of assault, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration.
Juan and Alejandro Munoz and Navarro-Chavez were also charged with child endangerment, while Chiluisa – who was tracked down and nabbed nearly an hour after fleeing the melee – is additionally charged with second and third-degree escape, prosecutors said.
A fifth suspect, a woman, hit one of the cops with a child’s bike but fled the scene.
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The injured officers were treated at a local hospital for injuries including abrasions and shoulder pain.
The cowardly assault is similar to a Jan. 7 attack on two other NYPD cops in Times Square by a larger migrant mob, leading to indictments against seven of the asylum seekers.
In that caught-on-video incident, the officers were trying to get a large crowd to disperse when one of them grew violent and wrestled with the cops – with his pals coming to his aid and beating on the cops.
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