Suspects in Brutal Attack on Off-Duty NYPD Officer Identified as Dominican Illegals Released at Border By Biden Administration
On Friday, off-duty NYPD detective Jose Mercedes was brutally attacked during a robbery attempt in broad daylight.
While Mercedes was clearing out the trunk of his car, two men on an e-bike approached him and reached for his gold chain.
Mercedes fought back and was brutally stabbed at least seven times to the neck and leg. He was taken to an area hospital and listed in stable condition.
According to The New York Post, the two attackers have been identified, and one of the suspects is in the US illegally.
The accused slasher was identified as 25-year-old D’Angelo Caraballo, while the suspect behind the wheel of the bike was ID’d as Sneider Mejia, 24, who has been living in the country illegally and already had detainer issued for him by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Mejia has one arrest on his rap sheet from last year, but the case has since been sealed, sources said.
Caraballo has two prior arrests — a menacing rap for allegedly threatening to stab a person who rented him a room in the Bronx in July and a 2025 gun possession charge for allegedly lugging a loaded .380 Taurus gun in his car, the sources said.
Fox News’s Bill Melugin reports, ” I’m told by DHS sources that the two suspects wanted for attempted murder in connection to the stabbing & robbery of an off-duty NYPD detective in NYC on Friday are both Dominican illegal aliens who were caught and released at the AZ border by the Biden administration & both have lengthy criminal histories in NYC, including an ignored ICE detainer.”