A Venezuelan migrant who arrived in New York City six months ago and has already been arrested by the police for the eighth time. Authorities reported that María Manaura was captured last Tuesday after she allegedly stole a young woman’s cell phone on a crowded train at 42nd Street-Grand Central, downtown.
To Manaura, published the New York Postis staying at the Row NYC hotel in Times Square, she was charged with several crimes: grand theft, possession of stolen property, shoving and resisting arrest.
On Thursday, she was arraigned in Manhattan on the first two charges, as well as petit larceny, and was granted supervised release by Judge Jay Weiner of Manhattan Criminal Court.
The District Attorney’s Office in New York asked to detain Manaura on bail of $10,000 or $30,000 due to previous arrests, including a similar case on December 1, where he robbed a woman of her phone, card and wallet in Bryant Park.
Finally, the Venezuelan migrant was released on parole, so she is required to comply with a series of conditions imposed by the judge, such as not committing more crimes, submitting to drug tests, getting a job, attending therapy sessions and others. Specific conditions.
“Given the defendant’s continued criminal conduct, monetary bail is reasonably necessary to ensure that she complies with court orders and returns to court,” an assistant district attorney said in court, quoted by the New York Post.
Sources informed the newspaper that María Manaura and an accomplice, who has not yet been arrested, were hanging around Grand Central station to get victims. It was there that they were preparing to board the train and they intentionally surrounded and collided with the 25-year-old victim to grab her phone from her jacket in the confusion.
The victim reported to police at 14th Street-Union Square after he got off the train that he could not find his phone. So the officers began patrolling, but lost sight of the foreigner among the people who were moving, according to the media.
Police had to fan out across different lines to search for Manaura and found her almost an hour later on a train on West 4th Street. In an attempt to get rid of her, the woman threw the phone on the floor and struggled with the police, but she ended up detained.
Other arrests
Hours after Manaura’s arrest, authorities also detained a 23-year-old Venezuelan woman identified as Michelle Sequera for snatching a woman’s cell phone from her hands on the Gran Central platform, he said. New York Post.
The foreigner, who was accused of grand theft, was captured along with Adonis Chala, 34, for allegedly blocking the victim from pursuing the person who would have taken her belongings. The man, according to the newspaper, arrived in the United States from Ecuador eight months ago, and helped the detainee reach the country after he met her online.
The same day, police arrested Gabriel Maraima, 22, of Venezuelan nationality, for stealing a woman’s credit card at the same station.
Keep reading:
• Venezuela takes advantage of the migration crisis in the US and threatens to revoke the repatriation of migrants
• He says he was an engineer in Venezuela and refuses to work for $20 an hour in the United States
• The wife of the Venezuelan who drowned in the Rio Grande spoke: she asks for help so that he does not end up in a mass grave in Mexico