A migrant who led a gang of asylum-seeking thugs in a savage caught-on-camera beating of two NYPD officers in Times Square and then quickly made bail was just busted for serial theft, police sources say.
Yohenry Brito, 24, of Venezuela was arrested late Tuesday for a pair of thefts at Manhattan Sephora locations: one in July in which he cut security wires on display cases to steal fragrances and another Aug. 6, when he ripped off $1,358 worth of merchandise from store shelves before fleeing with an accomplice, who was not apprehended, police sources told The Post.
He was previously arrested and released over least three other thefts — both before and after the shameful Times Square police beat-down.
Brito was one of seven migrants seen punching and kicking an NYPD officer and lieutenant in disturbing video captured the evening of Jan. 27 in Times Square, authorities said. The scuffle began after officers attempted to break up a rowdy crowd.
Five of the accused cowardly asylum-seekers — Yorman Reveron, 24; Jhoan Borada, 22; Wilson Juarez, 21; Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19, and Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19 — were charged with assault on a police officer and obstructing governmental investigation and were released without bail.
Brito was initially released with his alleged fellow cop-beaters, but he was taken back into custody after a public outcry and ordered held on $15,000 cash or a $50,000 bond because he was accused of sparking the scuffle with the cops and had two pending misdemeanor theft cases.
But the recidivist was back on the streets again after Rev. Juan Ruiz, the activist minister of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, put up the $15,000 to secure his release in February.
“Our church is basically a sanctuary,” the Rev. Juan Ruiz told The Post at the time. “We assume that people are innocent until they are proven otherwise.”
Two months later, Brito was busted again for petit larceny after trying to steal children’s clothing and “fragrances” from Macy’s Herald Square flagship store.
Judge Laura Ward said in Manhattan Criminal Court on the day of his release that she was “furious” he was arrested again while out on bail for the Times Square cop-beating case and warned that another incident would land him behind bars.
“I am very tempted right now to put you in jail. I am telling you right now, if I learn you are rearrested for anything at all between now and this case being finished, I will order a warrant, and I will place bail so high, you will not get out,” she continued.
“If you jaywalk, if you jump a turnstile, if you do anything at all and I have to issue a warrant, you will not see the light of day until this case is over,” Ward declared.
Brito was indicted on the new theft charges Monday and is being held on $25,000 cash bond for the felony theft in July.
He is now being held on $50,000 cash bond on the Times Square police assault because of the latest arrests, also.