US Marine veteran attorney Daniel Penny slammed the decision to release the immigrants without bail after they allegedly assaulted a pair of NYPD officers near Times Square over the weekend.
Surveillance footage of Saturday night’s scuffle showed a group of immigrants attacking an NYPD officer and lieutenant after they were told to move together.
The suspect can be seen kicking the officer before fleeing. They were arrested soon after.
The NYPD identified the suspects as Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servat Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, Yorman Reveron, 24 – who has two pending cases in Manhattan for assault and robbery – and Jhoan Boada, 22, who is listed as homeless and illegal immigrants.
Boada was filmed shamelessly flipping the bird while waiting for reporters as he was released from custody on Wednesday.
On Thursday, two more migrants were arrested – Yohenry Brito, 24, and Jandry Barros, 21 – in connection with the attack.
Brito was arraigned in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on $15,000 cash bail and $50,000 partial surety bond for the felony charges.
Barros was also arraigned on Thursday and released, with his next hearing scheduled for February 21.
Attorney Thomas Kenniff (left), US Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s attorney, slammed the decision to release immigrants without bail after they allegedly attacked NYPD officers near Times Square. Getty Images Wilson Juarez, Kelvin Servita Arocha and Darwin Andres Gomez are 3 of the 5 immigrants charged in the attack on the NYPD officer.
Later on Thursday, the Manhattan DA’s office declined to charge Barros.
“We strongly condemn the attack on police officers and prosecute those responsible. The question here is whether the person arrested was involved,” a spokesperson for the Barros case told Fox News. “At this time there is insufficient evidence that he was one of the perpetrators of this horrific act.”
Meanwhile, law enforcement sources told the New York Post that four of the alleged immigrants may have left the city on a bus to California.
Yorman Reveron was arrested after the Times Square attack. Jhoan Boada was also arrested after NYPD officers were attacked in Times Square.
The NYPD is looking for additional suspects in connection with the attack.
Attorney Thomas Kenniff, who represents Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran charged in the strangulation death of a subway passenger last year, called the prosecutor’s decision to release the immigrant without bail “deeply confusing.”
“The main purpose of bail is to keep people coming back to court,” Kenniff told Fox News Digital in an interview. “[F]From what I understand, they seem to have minimal if not anything to do with New York City.”
Kenniff argued that having limited resources may have been a factor in the case, but it was not “a reason not to set bail at all.”
He said the defendant had all the signs of “someone who may not be ready to return to court to face the consequences of their actions..”
“Furthermore, anyone who is willing to resist arrest — or worse, assault a police officer — shows that someone has no respect for the legal system, which makes them less likely to return to court,” Kenniff said. “So if ever there was a situation where bail would be appropriate, this seems to be the case.”
Penny pleaded not guilty last summer to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man and former Michael Jackson impersonator, who witnesses said was screaming and demanding money.
Penny allegedly pinned Neely to the ground with the help of two other passengers and held her in a choke hold for several minutes, according to prosecutors.
Penny’s attorney argued in court filings that Neely’s erratic behavior was “threateningly insane,” and that the Marine veteran acted in defense of himself and the other passengers.
Daniel Penny, a former Marine veteran, was charged in the strangulation death of a subway passenger last year. AP Penny allegedly pinned Neely to the ground with the help of two other passengers and held her in a choke hold for several minutes, according to prosecutors. AP
A judge granted Penny the same $100,000 bail conditions that previously got him out of custody.
Earlier this month, a New York City judge denied Penny’s motion to dismiss the criminal case against him.
The attack on the police officer has underscored the city’s struggle to deal with the influx of immigrants brought into the Big Apple from the Texas-Mexico border.
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