Pint-sized punk busted in Times Square cop beatdown is suspected ringleader of Central Park migrant robbery crew

Source: New York Post

One of the young migrants busted in the caught-on-camera beatdown of two cops in Times Square is believed to be the ringleader of a robbery crew that terrorized Central Park last year, law-enforcement sources said. The 12-year-old suspected thief — one of four baby-faced migrants arrested so far in the Friday night attack — was previously nabbed in August for being the “aggressor” in a violent gang mugging at a Queens subway station. The pipsqueak, whose name is being withheld because of his age, was released both times with no big-boy charges and only a family court hearing date – a symptom of the state’s lax juvenile justice system.