Police have arrested another person over allegations that she was involved in a group who assaulted two NYPD officers in Times Square in January.
The woman, 20-year-old Edgarlis Vegas, is the latest to face charges in the brawl, which took place outside a migrant shelter on Jan. 27 and has fueled an already-contentious debate over the influx of new arrivals in New York City.
Several others have been arrested and charged in connection with the incident, though Manhattan prosecutors earlier this month dropped charges against a 22-year-old man who was initially misidentified as a suspect by police.
Attorney information for Vegas was not immediately available. Police said she lives in Brooklyn.
The scuffle garnered widespread media coverage, with conservative pundits casting it as part of a pattern of crimes allegedly committed by migrants to the United States, even as official data does not support that characterization. Police Commissioner Edward Caban in early February publicly referenced a purported “wave of migrant crime” caused by a small number of new arrivals — rhetoric that sparked pushback from immigration advocates and progressives.
Police said on Monday they were still looking for two people in connection with the Times Square incident.
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