The Manhattan district attorney’s office and the NYPD asked for public help on Wednesday to identify and apprehend two unidentified individuals wanted in connection with the assault on a police lieutenant and an officer allegedly by asylum seekers in Times Square.
The NYPD has said as many as 14 people were involved. Some were released on their own recognizance after their arraignment, others still have not been identified.
Six of them have been arrested in the city and charged in the case. A seventh has been arrested, but on other unrelated outstanding charges, and it’s not clear if he participated in the assault even though he was on the video and an eighth suspect is in ICE custody.
Four of the six men arrested in NYC were released and were believed to have traveled to California, which is not technically a violation of their release until they fail to show up for court.
So far, one person, Yohenry Brito, has been indicted indicted with the charges set to be unsealed next month and, for now, is being held on Rikers Island on $15,000 bail.