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The NYPD Special Victims Unit is searching for a man suspected of groping a 5-year-old girl near a government-funded immigrant shelter in downtown 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 in the former Roosevelt Hotel.
A representative of the New York Police Department The Deputy Commissioner of Public Information’s office confirmed the investigation to Fox News Digital. The representative told Fox News Digital that the incident occurred approximately one block from the Roosevelt Hotel on Fifth Avenue and 46th Street around 7 p.m. on December 24.
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Police officers take security measures as migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel waiting to be placed inside a shelter in New York on August 2, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The representative declined to provide information about the suspect’s identity and did not say whether he was also a resident of the Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter. However, 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.
Known by some as the “modern Ellis Island,” the Roosevelt Hotel was converted into a processing center and shelter for migrants through New York City in May 2023 amid a surge of immigrants flocking to the city. The hotel has become the epicenter of much of the immigrant gang activity in New York City, which has reportedly led to an increase in violence and crime in the area.
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A still image from a social media video shows alleged youth members of the Aragua Train based at the Roosevelt Hotel allegedly committing a series of robberies in nearby Times Square. (Obtained by the New York Post)
The New York Police Department has not said whether the suspect they are looking for is a member of the notorious Venezuelan gang. Aragua Train or any other gang. The Aragua Train has had a strong presence in the vicinity of the hotel.
On December 5, Yeremi Colino, 17, allegedly a member of the “Diablos de la 42” gang, affiliated with the Tren de Aragua, was murdered stabbed to death during what is believed to have been a confrontation with a rival gang.
Another migrant, Alan Magalles Bello, 18, was also stabbed along with Colino, but survived.