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DHS arrests 3 at suspected NYC migrant squatter house

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Arrests at suspected migrant squatter house shown live on 'America Reports'
By Michael Dorgan Fox News

Published April 3, 2024 3:56pm EDT

Fox News cameras capture arrest of migrant squatting suspects

Fox News' Bryan Llenas reports live from the Bronx, New York City, as federal law enforcement officials arrest additional suspects at the scene where eight
migrant squatters were previously arrested after being found with firearms and drugs.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents arrested three people Wednesday

afternoon at a New York City house that has been at the center of a squatting, drugs and
guns story involving migrants.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were also at the scene to help with the
arrests, which were captured live on " America Reports ."

Documents viewed by Fox News Digital reveal that the landlord moved to evict tenants
from the building in October after their lease term ended on Oct. 13. The lease does not
name the tenants.

Federal agents showed up at the house in the Bronx where six suspected migrant
squatters, who were arrested on drugs and weapons charges last week, were understood
to be living. The Hull Street Avenue house is across the street from a school.

The six had been set loose by a New York City judge on no-cash bail, despite prosecutors
requesting they post bail as high as $150,000 cash for one migrant who had previously
been arrested and charged with attempted murder.

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A man is arrested by federal agents in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Fox News)

It is unclear if the three people taken into DHS custody were also arrested last week.

In total, eight migrants were arrested in last week's incident and were all charged with
criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and
acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said. A 7-year-old child was found living with
the group.

Of the eight, six were let go and two have been held on cash bail.

Four guns, magazines, ammunition and drugs were found in a suspected migrant squatter home. (NYPD)

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The New York Police Department released photos of four guns, ammunition and bags of
cocaine and ketamine that they found after officers were called last Wednesday to a multi-
house for reports of a person with a gun.

Police said that when they arrived on the scene, they saw Hector Desousa-Villalta, 24, of
Venezuela, pointing a gun outside the premises. The officers chased and tackled Desousa-
illalta as another man, Javier Alborno, 22, also of Venezuela, tried to flee the scene with a
handgun tucked under his arm, but officers cuffed him.

Police confiscated the weapons.

Federal agents on Wednesday arrested three people at a New York City house that has been at the center of a squatting,
drugs and guns story involving migrants. (Fox News)

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GUN, DRUG CHARGES

Desousa-Villalta was said to have had a 9 mm CZ pistol with one live round in the chamber
and 13 live rounds in the magazine, while Alborno was allegedly in possession of a 9 mm
Springfield Armory pistol with one round in the chamber and 24 live rounds inside the
magazine.

Police said they also found a 9 mm Smith and Weston pistol with 10 live rounds in the
magazine next to it, while a .40-caliber "ghost gun" pistol with 10 live rounds inside the
magazine was found in an orange book bag. Two additional magazines that each had the
capacity to hold 25 live rounds were also confiscated.

A Bronx judge released Desousa-Villalta on no-cash bail supervised release, even though
the Bronx District Attorney’s Office told Fox News it requested his bail be set at $150,000
cash or $450,000 bond. He was previously arrested in an attempted murder incident in
August 2023, when he is alleged to have shot a fellow migrant in the leg during an
argument over a woman in Yonkers.

Alborno is being held after his bail was set at $100,000 cash – prosecutors had called for
it to be set at $150,000.

Also being held is 31-year-old Miquel Vaamondes-Barrios after his bail was set at $25,000.
He is wanted for retail theft and shoplifting in both New York and Pennsylvania, according
to police.

It unclear why Barrios and Alborno were being held while the remaining migrants were
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let go on no-cash bail.

A group of eight illegal migrants who were allegedly found squatting in a Bronx apartment are now facing guns and
weapons charges. Federal agents arrested three more people at the house on Wednesday. (WNYW)

The remaining migrants released with no-cash bail included one woman, 20-year-old
Yoessy Pino Castillo, as well as Yerbin Lozado-Munoz, 25, Yojairo Martinez, 42, Jefferson
Orlando Abreau, 39, and Johan Cardenas Silva, 35.

It unclear if the migrants are still living in the basement of the premises. All eight are
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reportedly accused of possessing the drugs with the intent to sell them.

On Wednesday, Desousa-Villalta was seen by Fox News driving a gray Dodge SUV with
blacked-out windows into the driveway of the home on Wednesday.

He ran into the home and then reappeared as a woman in the back seat could be seen
banging on the window and telling him to get into the SUV.

Video from the house on Tuesday showed bags of trash, a chair, a mattress and other
items strewn across the backyard of the property. There was also an inflatable pool partly
filled with water and a moped at the side of the house. A wheelchair could also be seen on
the front porch.

Fox News' Bryan Llenas and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.

Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.

You can send tips to michael.dorgan@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @M_Dorgan.

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