NYPD, Queens DA investigate possible gun smuggling in migrant shelters
The NYPD and the Queens district attorney’s office are investigating claims that some migrants are using food delivery bags to sneak guns into city shelters, according to officials from both agencies.
“Right now, there’s a lot of allegations,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said after the court proceedings. “We are investigating all of them.” “We live in a society where everyone is entitled to due process, and this individual is also entitled to due process,” said Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition. “A court, as well as his peers, will determine what happened.”
Castro Mata appeared in court hunched over in a wheelchair, a drain attached to his side filled with blood. During his arraignment, an assistant district attorney read a series of statements the 19-year-old allegedly made to police after his arrest. She said Castro Mata claimed a friend had given him the gun to hold onto and that it fired accidentally while he was trying to show it to police.
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