Group of gun-toting migrant squatters busted in Bronx basement apartment on weapons, drug charges

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Group of gun-toting migrant squatters busted in Bronx basement apartment on weapons, drug charges

Police collared the seven suspects after they were called to the Hull Avenue apartment at about 10 p.m. last Wednesday on a report of a man with a gun, police officials said.

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Group of gun-toting migrant squatters busted in Bronx basement apartment on weapons, drug charges​

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Published April 1, 2024, 7:52 p.m. ET










A group of gun-toting migrant squatters were busted in a basement apartment in the Bronx — where authorities found a drug stash in a space shared with a young child, police said.
The NYPD collared the seven suspects after they were called to the Hull Avenue home at about 10 p.m. last Wednesday on a report of a man with a gun, according to the NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell.
When officers arrived, they saw a man pointing a pistol at someone as he stood in the driveway, Chell said. But the suspect took off when the cops walked up, and quickly headed back into the building’s basement, he added.

The NYPD arrested the seven suspects after they were called to the Hull Avenue home at about 10 p.m. last Wednesday on a report of a man with a gun, revealed NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell. Michael Nagle
Officers allegedly chased, then tackled the gun-wielding man, who they later identified as Hector Desousa-Villalta, 24, of Venezuela.




That’s when another man — Javier Alborno, 22, also of Venezuela — tried to sneak out of the same basement with a handgun tucked under arm, Chell said. But the officers saw him, and soon he too was in cuffs, Chell added.

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Authorities searched the apartment and found two more guns — including one so-called “ghost gun” — as well as three extended magazines, a box of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine, Chell said.

The suspect (not pictured) took off when the cops walked up, and quickly headed back into the building’s basement. Christopher Sadowski
There was also a 7-year-old child inside, although it’s not clear who the parents were.


Police arrested seven people — Desousa-Villalta, Alborno, Yojairo Martinez, Johan J. Cardenas DeSilva, Yerbin lozado Munoz, Yoessy Castillo and Miguel Barrios — and charged them with weapons possession and criminal possession of a controlled substance, police officials said.