A pair of migrants with rap sheets jumped and pounded an NYPD cop who tried to stop them and their crew from shoplifting at an Upper East Side Target, police and sources said Tuesday.
Yusneiby Machado, 23, and Brayan Freites, 21, were among the group of six migrants who allegedly yanked $82 in items off displays inside the store on Third Avenue near East 70th Street on April 2, the sources said.
They left a trail of destruction as they snatched up a gaming light, a backpack, tools and assorted grub including Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Doritos, strawberries and bottled waters, cops and sources said.
When responding cops from the NYPD’s 19th Precinct stopped the crew, all from Venezuela, in their tracks, Machado and Freitas allegedly wrestled, shoved, slapped and pushed them in an attempt to resist, according to the sources.
The wild struggle left one officer with swelling, redness and pain on his left arm, cops said.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.
Another suspect — who has not been caught — tried to throw rocks at the officers, but they were not struck, the sources said.
Both Machado and Freites were charged with robbery, assault, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, criminal possession of stolen property, disorderly conduct and harassment, cops said.
They were arraigned before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Wiener — and treated with kid gloves.
Machado was cut loose without bail under supervised release, despite a request from prosecutors that she be held on $10,000 bail.
Prosecutors asked that Freites be held on $10,000 bail or a $30,000 bond, and Wiener ordered him held on $3,000 bail or a $9,000 bond.
He was still at Rikers Island on Tuesday.
Their alleged partners in crime, Sebastian Jaramillio, 22, Michael Sanchez, 31, and Henry Zambrano, 19, were also arrested and charged by cops with robbery and disorderly conduct, police said.
All three — who lived at the Ward’s Island shelter, per sources — were later arraigned on petty larceny and possession of stolen property charges and released without bail.
“No job is routine, no call for service is routine,” Deputy Inspector Neil Zuber, commanding officer of the NYPD’s 19th Precinct, told neighbors who gathered later that night for the precinct’s community council meeting, according to the Upper East Site.
“Every time these officers respond, and they’re confronted with a crime, they’re gonna do everything they can to make that arrest.”
