A poster child of Tren de Aragua’s “Little Devils” gang was nabbed early Wednesday following an alleged violent robbery of a 16-year-old disabled boy in Staten Island, police sources told The Post.
The baby-faced Venezuelan migrant, who is believed to be part of a crew of young gang members terrorizing the Big Apple, was taken in for questioning over the alleged attack outside the Staten Island Mall on May 5, the sources said.
Police said four youngsters were behind the violent saga that saw the teen victim allegedly punched and kicked.
The gang then allegedly snatched the victim’s bag and $38 in cash before fleeing, cops said.
The victim, who sources described as being disabled, was injured but didn’t have to be hospitalized.
No charges had been filed as of Wednesday morning in the Staten Island saga, cops said.
It comes after the NYPD on Tuesday had blasted out a surveillance image of one of the four young suspects they wanted to speak to in the wake of the ordeal.
It wasn’t clear, though, if the person of interest in the surveillance image was the same alleged poster child gangbanger who has been arrested in a string of other recent busts in the city.
The teen thug is part of “Los Diablos de la 42” — Spanish for “Little Devils of 42nd Street” — a crew of about 20 young migrants who have been targeting locals and tourists in armed robberies around Times Square and other parts of the city, according to sources.
The youngster, who immigration sources say crossed the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2023, was nabbed last October for allegedly pulling a knife on a man in Midtown and stealing his phone.
He was also allegedly part of a crew who surrounded two straphangers on a 7 train in Queens and attacked them with brass knuckles in May 2024, police said.
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