It should come as no surprise that crime is up in New York City. Nonviolent criminals walk free under District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and thousands of illegal immigrants crowd hotels and shelters, free to walk the streets.
Last night in Coney Island, David Davon-Bonilla, 24, raped a 46 year-old woman at knifepoint. Davon-Bonilla is from Nicaragua. When the woman's boyfriend tried to stop the attack, Leovando Moreno, 37, struck him with an unidentified weapon. Moreno is Mexican.
As reported by the New York Post, "The horrific attack took place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers at Surf Avenue and 16th Street around 9 p.m. Sunday, according to police."
Needless to say, this is another example of imported crime that didn't have to happen, a violent act that was 100% avoidable.
The violent Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela is well-represented in New York City, as reported here in February. Daniel Hernandez Martinez is yet another single, military-aged man affiliated with the gang, and he may hold a record for the most crimes committed by a "migrant" in half a year.
The ambitious Martinez has been booked 22 times in six months in New York City and the surrounding area.
Martinez is a perfect example of the revolving door of recidivism Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly highlighted as the driving factor for New York's ballooning crime rates.
On August 1st in Central Park, two locals were robbed by a gang of children at knifepoint. One of the victim's account of the event displays his naiveté--he was sitting on a park bench near Wollman Rink at 10:30 pm--but the ages of his assailants is noteworthy.
From his account of the event:
"The small kid with them — he could have been 8, maybe 9 at the most — came and beelined right up to us. When he got to our bench, he kind of mean mugged us and flexed on us. I was like “Oh, can I help you?” At that point, all of the kids in this group surrounded us and started grabbing at our bags. At that point, I realized, “Oh, they’re trying to take our stuff.” They were trying to grab our cell phones out of our pockets and stuff like that. As I tried to push their hands out of my pockets, one of the smaller ones, maybe a 10-year-old kid, came up from behind and grabbed my wallet out of my back pocket. I started running after him, but the other kids ran up to me and a few of them pulled knives. I put my hands up and I was like, “Oh, okay, it’s yours – you can take it.” I definitely wasn’t going to put up a fight while knives were drawn."
