Six of NYC migrant squatter crew set loose without bail after gun and drug bust as neighbors detail chaos on Bronx block

Six of eight armed migrant squatters and drug dealers arrested last week in the Bronx have been released without bail — as frustrated neighbors said Tuesday the unruly and noisy crew brought nothing but trouble to the neighborhood.

NYPD arrested the squatters – who set up shop across from PS 56 in a multi-family home on Hull Avenue in the borough’s Norwood neighborhood – after one of them pointed a CZ pistol 9mm gunshot wound to someone on the property last Wednesday evening, police officials said.

“I see all the gangsters and wannabe gangsters running around here,” one neighbor told the Post.

“I saw them all outside and I knew they were up to something,” she added.

The alleged shooter, Hector Desousa-Villalta, was released on supervision Friday evening by Bronx Criminal Court Judge Eugene D. Bowen — despite Bowen’s prosecutor’s request to set bail at $150,000 cash or $450 $000 bond, according to the district attorney’s office.

The same judge released two other squatters — Yoessy Pino Castillo and Jefferson Orlando Abreau — on their own recognizance after their arraignments Friday, according to the district attorney’s office and court records.

Bronx Criminal Court Judge Laurence Busching let three others — Yojairo Martinez, Johan Cardenas Silva and Yerbin Lozado-Munoz — walk on probation after their respective hearings, according to court records.

It’s unclear why some were remanded and others were released — even though they all face the same charges of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance and action harmful to a child.

Police said they found four firearms on the property.

Desousa-Villalta and Javier Alborno, both from Venezuela, were reportedly found with handguns on their person when police arrived.

Then, officers found two more weapons – including a Springfield 9mm pistol and a so-called “ghost gun” – as well as three extended magazines, a box of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine, police officials said. said.

There was also a 7-year-old child inside, although it is not clear who his parents were.

Meanwhile, the squatters’ hapless neighbors said they were glad cops took down the offenders’ alleged scams.

Alfred Munoz, a neighbor who has lived in the neighborhood for more than five decades, said that one day the squatters showed up in the house and wouldn’t leave.

“The landlord wanted to evict them, but the NYPD told him no,” Munoz claimed, adding that he was often frustrated by the fleet of noisy motorcycles they kept in the front yard.

“They wake me up at 2 a.m.,” he says.

Another neighbor told the Post that the group commandeered the house about a year ago and turned it into a noisy, high-traffic hub for the project they were implementing.

“Their operation was sophisticated and it seemed like they knew what they were doing,” she said.

“One day one of them was hitting another man with a pipe,” she recalls, saying it was apparently some sort of debt collection.

“Expel them!” » said Fausto Fermín, a Spanish-speaking immigrant who said he was angry at the recent wave of criminal immigrants causing unrest in the city.

Neighbors certainly appear to have tried to report the problem to the police, filing eight separate complaints over the past three weeks against squatters blocking the sidewalk or road.

But authorities did not clear out the house before last week’s gun incident, even though it is across the street from PS 56, a public school filled with high-achieving students.

“It’s usually littered with bags and trash in the morning, every day,” John Pitt, a 69-year-old retired doorman who looks after a nearby house for its absentee landlord, said of the sidewalks. in front.

The yard operated as a curbside drug sales service, he claimed, with motorcycles coming in and out with various deliveries to unknown areas.

“They go away for a minute or two, then they come back,” he told the Post.

The crew often blocked sidewalks or fire hydrants with the cars they were working on, Pitt said.

“They had a car, under a tarpaulin, with the front end taken off,” Pitt said, adding that the habit had angered nearby residents.

Syeda Ali, who owns the property with her husband, told the Post she was “afraid of the crime” happening on the property.

“My husband is a hard worker and he is at work now,” she said Tuesday. “He works long days and has to travel from home to work and rental in the Bronx…I’m scared. My husband goes back and forth dealing with crime and criminals.