Migrants armed with loaded AR-15 attack police in deep blue city, then are released.
The officers then attempted to place Sosa under arrest on the northbound platform of the Kingsbridge subway station, but he resisted by “stiffening his arms and refusing to be handcuffed,” police say.
A brief struggle then ensued with 20-year-old Christopher Mayren jumping in to interfere with the arrest. During the altercation, a loaded and defaced Palmetto State Armory PA-15 firearm fell out of Sosa’s backpack, according to police.
Mayren also kicked one of the officer’s body cameras onto the subway track.
Sosa was hit with a slew of charges, including criminal possession of AR- 15 gun, criminal possession of a loaded firearm and defaced weapon, resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration.
The New York Post, citing sources, reports that the two suspects are migrants. Post sources said a tattoo on Mayren’s arm links him to a vicious drug cartel.
Mayren was released without bail, and Sosa was sent to Rikers Island on a $25,000 bond, which he posted on Nov. 12,
