Police made a new arrest Tuesday in an alleged group assault on two NYPD officers in Times Square last month and on Wednesday rearrested another man in connection with the incident on separate shoplifting charges, according to the department.
A 17-year-old was arrested on assault charges in connection with the Jan. 27 brawl, police said. They said they arrested him in Midtown, near where the incident took place.
He will be arraigned Wednesday morning, at which time a judge will decide whether to release him, set bail or hold him in custody. Police did not release his name, and his attorney information wasn’t immediately available.
The teenager joins five other people who have already been arrested and charged in the caught-on-camera melee that went viral, sparking outrage and misinformation after law enforcement officials identified the suspects as recently arrived migrants.
One of those men, 19-year-old Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, was rearrested in Queens on Wednesday morning. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry had earlier posted on social media a wanted flier saying Gomez-Izquiel was being sought for acting as a lookout for a group suspected of shoplifting at a Macy’s on Queens Boulevard.
“I’m dismayed that he got rearrested on robbery charges, but we’ll see how these allegations play out,” said Mark Macron, Gomez-Izquiel’s attorney, who said he hadn’t yet heard about the latest arrest when reached by phone. “I’m not going to concede that he was involved in these things. … I have to see more information.”
The 19-year-old was released last month after his initial arrest for the alleged assault on the two police officers. He was one of seven people indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week for their roles in the incident.
Two of the people listed in the indictment were unnamed and unapprehended at the time, according to the DA’s office. It was not immediately clear whether the 17-year-old arrested Tuesday…
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