Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
The NYPD Special Victims Unit is looking for a man suspected of groping a 5-year-old girl nearby a government-funded migrant shelter in the center of Manhattan.
Local New York news source 1010 WINS reported that the girl and her mother, who have not been identified by authorities, are residents of a New York City-funded migrant shelter at the old Roosevelt Hotel.
Representative from New York City Police Department The deputy commissioner of the Office of Public Information confirmed the investigation to Fox News Digital. A representative told Fox News Digital that the incident happened about a block away from the Roosevelt Hotel at 5th Avenue and 46th Street around 7pm on December 24th.
BLUE STATE CONFRONTS MIGRANT SEX CRIMES RADIO AS TOP CITY PLEDGES RESISTANCE TO TRUMP’S DEPORTATIONS
Police officers take security measures as migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel waiting to be accommodated at a shelter in New York on August 2, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The representative declined to provide any information about the suspect’s identity and did not say whether he is also a resident of the Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter. But according to 1010 WINS, the suspect knows the girl and her mother.
The radio station reported that after the alleged groping, the girl was taken to Bellevue, a hospital in Manhattan.
Called by some the “modern Ellis Island,” the Roosevelt Hotel was just that turned into a shelter for migrants and a processing center by New York City in May 2023 amid a surge in migrants flocking to the city. The hotel became the epicenter of much of New York’s migrant gang activity, resulting in an increase in violence and crime in the area.
JUVENILE MEMBERS OF AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG BEHIND THE ROBBERY DO NOT GO TO PRISON BECAUSE OF AGE
A still image from a social media video shows suspected underage Tren de Aragua members holed up at the Roosevelt Hotel who allegedly committed a series of robberies in nearby Times Square. (obtained by the New York Post)
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
New York police have not said whether the suspect they are looking for is a member of a notorious Venezuelan gang The Aragua train or any other gang. Tren de Aragua was very present near the hotel.
On December 5, 17-year-old Yeremi Colino, allegedly a member of the “Diablos de la 42” (Devils of 42nd Street) gang linked to Tren de Aragua, was stabbed to death during what is believed to be a conflict with a rival gang.
Another migrant, 18-year-old Alan Magalles Bello, was also stabbed along with Colin but survived.
