Tren de Aragua’s ‘Little Devils’ poster child busted after allegedly attacking disabled teen
The poster child for Tren de Aragua’s “Little Devils” baby-faced migrant crew was busted yet again Wednesday — this time for allegedly robbing a 16-year-old autistic boy in Staten Island, police sources told The Post.
The pint-sized Venezuelan vandal, who has at least a dozen busts on his rap sheet despite being just 15, is believed to be part of a crew of young gangbangers terrorizing the Big Apple.
He is now charged with second-degree robbery after cops took him in for questioning over the alleged May 5 attack at the Staten Island Mall.
“The individuals responsible for these crimes against some of the most vulnerable individuals — the disabled,” the source said. “They’re responsible for victimizing dozens, and it’s a revolving door.”
The tiny terror is a member of “Diablos de la 42” — or Devils of 42nd Street — an underage offshoot of Tren de Aragua, the violent Venezuelan gang that has established a foothold in tax-funded Big Apple shelters.
The NYPD has identified about 40 documented members of the Diablos, with 30 “associates” as young as 11 who help carry out mob robberies and assaults in Midtown and beyond, according to sources.
But because they are minors, they typically get little more than a slap on the wrist under New York State’s lenient juvenile justice laws.
Albany lawmakers passed the “Raise the Age” law in 2018, increasing the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18. The following year the state legislature went one step further, barring bail on most crimes.
It has been a boon for the underage migrant goons, including the “Little Devil” busted on Wednesday.
In the lastest example, police sources said the teen was part of at least four Diablo members that punched and kicked the disabled victim.
The gang then allegedly snatched the victim’s bag and $38 in cash before fleeing, cops said.
The victim, who sources described as being autistic, was injured but didn’t have to be hospitalized.
The NYPD on Tuesday had blasted out a surveillance image of one of the four young suspects they wanted to speak to in the wake of the ordeal.
It wasn’t clear, though, if the person of interest in the surveillance image was the same alleged poster child gangbanger or one of his thug pals.
The youngster, who immigration sources say crossed the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2023, was nabbed last October for allegedly pulling a knife on a man in Midtown and stealing his phone.
Last year, he allegedly went on a crime spree and was allegedly part of a crew who surrounded two straphangers on a 7 train in Queens and attacked them with brass knuckles on May 28, 2024, police said.
On June 2, he was charged with robbing three people at knifepoint on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, and six days later was accused of snatching a phone in Central Park.
In July, he was charged in two alleged incidents — ganging up on a victim to steal a phone on East 60th Street, and snatching a chain from a 4 train straphanger in Manhattan.
By early September, he had been busted for allegedly snatching chains and phones from victims in four more incidents, sources said.
“There is no deterrence,” a police source told The Post last year about the troublesome teen. “You have a 15-year-old who continues to treat the city like his personal video game.”
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