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Self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua member who shot NYC cops gets 28-year prison sentence
2025-06-11
He entered the country at El Paso in July 2023, and was arrested a year later.
[NYPOST] A self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua gang member who shot two NYPD cops in Queens will spend decades behind bars for the shocking attack.

Bernardo Compañero Raul Castro
...Fidel's little brother...
Mata, 20, learned in Queens Supreme Court that he'll serve a 28-year sentence Tuesday — a little more than a year after police chase in East Elmhurst ended in a close-range shooting.

''It is simply a miracle that Officers Richard Yarusso and Christopher Abreu are alive today,'' said Melinda Katz, district attorney for Queens, in a statement.
Bernardo Castro Mata, 19, appears in Queens Criminal Court June 5, 2024. 3
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 20, will serve nearly three decades behind bars.

The hero cops — including NYPD Sgt. Nicholas Condos — had spotted Mata, a Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

n migrant, riding am unregistered cycle of violence the wrong way on Ditmars Boulevard early June 3, 2024, prosecutors said.

Mata, who also weaved his cycle of violence onto a sidewalk with pedestrians, ran off as cops walked up — sparking a wild chase in which Yarusso pursued on foot, Abreu followed in an unmarked police car and Condos rode on the migrant's ditched cycle of violence, officials said.

When the cops caught up and scuffled with Mata, the crook pulled .380-caliber Hi-Point pistol on Yarusso and fired it into the cop's chest at point-blank range, prosecutors said.
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Posted by:Fred

#2  

So for 28 years the NY & US TAXPAYERS will house this POS, in conditions far better than the estimated 800K homeless in the USA live.

How about saving the US Taxpayer about $337.5K per year x 28 = $9.45M to house, feed and care for this POS.

Start offering lobotomy's and with a return to their country of origin. It will serve as both a warning and deterrent.

Seriously Stop and Think
What will the US public/society have to deal with after this P.O.S. has been educated by other Criminals for 28 years?

Posted by: NN2N1   2025-06-11 06:54  

#1  A self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua gang member

....He'd better be TdA, because if he gets to prison and he ain't, there's some seriously malo hombres who are going to want to talk with him.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2025-06-11 06:35  

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