Exclusive | Another 15-year-old tied to baby-faced Little Devil gang busted in NYC robbery of autistic teen: sources

Another 15-year-old migrant tied to Tren de Aragua’s baby-faced “Little Devils’’ gang was busted Tuesday in the cowardly robbery of an autistic teen at the Staten Island Mall, law-enforcement sources said.The punk gang associate also is being eyed in a “Little Devils” robbery attack on another teen in Lower Manhattan last week — when the thugs literally ripped a sneaker off the victim, sources said.The boy was picked up by the NYPD in the morning and is the third person to be nabbed in the earlier May 5 Mother’s Day robbery that left a 16-year-old autistic victim battered and traumatized.Already charged in the Mother’s Day mall crime was another 15-year-old whose exploits include more than a dozen arrests, with the notorious young criminal deemed the poster boy for the “Little Devils,” a k a “Los Diablos de 42,” or “The Devils of 42nd Street.” The underaged crew is essentially a farm system for the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren, with members having snuck into the US with the wave of asylum-seekers that began flooding across the country’s southern border in 2022.The gang recruited new members from inside city-funded Big Apple shelters — and spawned the troublesome “Little Devils” gang, which has largely dodged serious charges because they are minors.In the May 5 assault, a mob of “Diablos” stormed through the Staten Island Mall wreaking havoc, including by ganging up on the disabled teen, attacking him and stealing his bag and $38, police said.“It makes me sick these kids are still here,” the victim’s furious mom previously told The Post.“They should have been deported a long time ago.

I had to keep my son home for a week because he was so scared.”The gang-associated suspect busted Tuesday over the mall attack was charged with second-degree robbery — but is likely to get a slap on the wrist like his cohorts because of the state’s lenient juvenile justice laws, which refer underage minors to family court and rele...