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Make New York Post a Preferred Source           ()    Crews of motorized bike-riding thieves — some of them illegal migrant gang-bangers — are terrorizing New York City, viciously snatching thousands of dollars in jewelry from the necks of unsuspecting cops and civilians alike, The Post has learned. There have been more than 20 motorized bike chain-snatchings since September, with at least 10 of them turning violent, according to the NYPD — and police sources say that’s just a drop in the bucket. “(https://nypost.com/2024/11/01/us-news/motorcycle-riding-gun-toting-pair-steals-jewelry-worth-more-than-25k-in-string-of-nyc-heists-cops/) There are hundreds of chain snatchings around the city ,” said a law enforcement officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not cleared to talk to the news media.  (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Surveillance image of a masked suspect on a moped.)  7     A masked scooter rider approaches a 48-year-old male victim on West 145th Street in the Bronx before snatching the victim’s necklace and fleeing on Sept. 25. DCPI   “A lot of it has to do with the Trinitarios,” said the officer, referring to (https://nypost.com/2026/10/09/us-news/feds-believe-oscar-belgal-belonged-to-blood-thirsty-trinitarios-gang/) the violent street gang founded by Dominican inmates at Rikers Island in the early 1990s that has since grown into a crime empire plaguing the Bronx and upper Manhattan for decades.  “That’s one of their big things, chain snatchings, and two people on a bike doing robberies.” Explore More  (https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/us-news/raid-on-ilhan-omars-home-prompted-by-family-text-on-sisters-phone/) (An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Sahra Noor, left, and Ilhan Omar pose for a photo, Image 2 shows Homeland Security Investigations agents leave the Washington, D.C. home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Image 3 shows A Homeland Security Investigations agent carrying a cardboard box from the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. 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Nine other chain-snatching victims reported being punched, knifed or thrown to the ground during the terrifying, lightning-fast robberies. Two reputed Trinitario gang members on scooters were also responsible for shooting an off-duty federal border patrol agent at a Manhattan park on July 9, 2025, sparking a massive roundup of Big Apple gangbangers in January, federal officials said. (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Surveillance image of an individual wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and a face mask.)  7     The robbers ride scooters up to men and women in the street and rip off their necklaces. DCPI   (https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/kristi-noem-touts-roundup-of-54-immigrant-gangbangers-after-nyc-shooting-of-off-duty-cbp-cop/) “Operation Salvo” took 54 members of the crew off the streets after the (https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-in-face-during-nyc-park-robbery-before-striking-back-and-wounding-one-of-his-attackers/) 42-year-old law enforcement officer was shot and wounded at Fort Washington Park in Washington Heights at West 155th Street, the officials said. In Gotham, the thieves often have the advantage. If they are caught, lefty judges often spring the crooks just as fast. And they are never handed over to ICE if their immigration status is in question because NYC is a sanctuary city, an NYPD officer said.  “We’re not allowed to confer with ICE so we just arrest them,” said the cop, who also asked to remain anonymous so he wouldn’t get in trouble. “They get released on their own recognizance [by a judge] and they go back and do it again.” (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Surveillance camera still of a person wearing a white hooded sweatshirt and face covering, wanted by the NYPD for a robbery pattern.)  7     Sometimes the robbers are armed with knives or guns and other times they punch their victims. DCPI   The revolving-door system was spinning in the case of Jorge Beltre, a Bronx bodega worker and Uber driver who was attacked by two scooter-riding bandits as he walked his 5-year-old son home from school near Mount Eden Parkway and Sheridan Avenue in Claremont on Oct. 8. Beltre, 30, fought back to save his 14-karat gold Cuban-link chain when one of the attackers pulled a knife and stabbed him in the leg, according to police. Despite his wound, the Domincan Republic native was able to hold the 17-year-old thief — with the help of eight onlookers — until cops arrived, he said. Beltre’s son was unharmed. (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Surveillance photo of an unidentified individual wearing a white baseball cap, olive jacket, and light pants, riding a black moped.)  7     When the robberies are arrested they are usually released without bail and have the ability to commit the crime again, a police source said.. DCPI   The teenager was charged with robbery and weapon possession, according to police. He was released on $900 bail, Beltre said the Bronx District Attorneys Office told him.  “The community and I caught one,” he told The Post in Spanish. “Why did they let him go? He didn’t say where the other guy is. He didn’t say who the other guy was. I feel outraged. Why do they grant him release? “It fills me with outrage because I felt my life was in danger,” Beltre continued. “We are living through a scourge. The Bronx is practically being ravaged by these criminals. People are getting their chains snatched — two or three incidents a day. The community is fed up.” (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Two individuals wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and face coverings ride a light-colored scooter on a city street near a car.)  7     The individuals depicted are wanted in connection with a citywide robbery pattern that occurred within the confines of the 94th and 71st precincts in Brooklyn and the 112th and 108th precinct in Queens, cops said.. DCPI   The experience has been “unsettling” for his son, who asked his mom to send him back to school with a baseball bat “so he could hit the criminals if he saw them,” Beltre said. He said his muggers were also from the Domican Republic. Beltre needed five stitches to close his wound.  The Bronx District Attorneys Office didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. In another incident on Sept. 13, a 54-year-old victim told cops he tried to hold onto the motorbike-riding thief who ripped a chain off his neck on Grand Avenue near West 180th Street in the West Bronx. (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (Jorge Beltré taking a mirror selfie in a living room.)  7     Jorge Beltre was robbed by a moped robbery crew as he walked his 5-year-old son home from school. Jorge Beltré   But the thief accelerated, dragging the victim, who suffered minor injuries and lost his $2,700 chain, cops said. Two robbers on e-bikes approached a 60-year-old man near Duncan Street and Laconia Avenue in the East Bronx on Sept. 28, displayed a firearm and punched him in the face before snatching $8,000 of jewelry from his neck. He suffered minor injuries. The motorized muggers are brazen enough to target cops.  An off-duty female office, had her chain snatched at the corner of Arlington and Barbey streets in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Oct. 10, police sources said.  The crook grabbed a gold necklace that read “Angie” from the 25-year-old’s neck before riding off on a scooter, the sources said. The necklace was worth about $800, the cop reported. The female officer’s attack came eight days after two criminals stabbed Detective Jose Mercedes, 33, near East 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue in Norwood in the Bronx as they tried to rip the necklace given to him by his mom off his neck, he told reporters this week. Mercedes told the crooks several times in both English and Spanish that he was a detective — but “they didn’t care,” he said. The accused robbers, whom police identified as D’Angelo Caraballo, 25, and Sneider Mejia, 24, fled the scene on an e-bike. Mercedes chased them but collapsed because he was losing so much blood, he said. (index.html#) (Open a slideshow of all 7 article images.) (NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes stands with his arm in a sling and bandages following a stabbing attack.)  7     NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes was attacked and stabbed 10 times by chain snatchers on Oct. 2 near East 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue in the Bronx. Paul Martinka for NY Post   Police hunted the duo down outside of Boston and brought them back to New York to face attempted murder charges. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE said both men have prior criminal records, and are Dominican Republic natives living in the US illegally. An NYPD spokesperson said the chain-snatchings had been decreasing in the Bronx recently. “Since the attempted murder of Detective Mercedes, there has been a significant decrease in chain snatches within the confines of Patrol Borough Bronx North,” the spokesperson said. 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