Criminal illegal migrant shot by ICE has rap sheet of alarming crimes and is absolutely not a New Yorker: neighbors

The Dominican Republic native shot by ICE agents in The Bronx was a migrant with an alarming rap sheet — who apparently benefited from New York’s lax bail and sanctuary laws, allowing him to remain on the streets, according to sources and court records.Oscar Belgal, 28, is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights a year later, allegedly sold dangerous drugs within months of his conviction in 2025 and was even allegedly connected to a violent street gang.None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to.“I don’t consider him a New Yorker,” fumed Bronx mom Migdalia Martinez, whose 12-year-old son Jacob Freytas was killed in gangland crossfire while riding his bike in July.“The only thing I do consider him as is trash, nothing else but trash.And I don’t consider New York, my home, as trash,” she told The Post Friday.Asked if Mamdani was wrong to call Belgal a New Yorker, Martinez said: “The mayor is wrong in many ways — that’s definitely one.”Martinez’ son was tragically struck by a stray bullet in Mt.

Eden, known Trinitarios territory, and authorities said they suspected the vicious gang was involved in the violence.US Department of Homeland Security officials have said the same gang was involved in the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty CBP officer at Fort Washington Park — and that they were investigating alleged links to Belgal when they approached him Thursday.Security footage showed plainclothes ICE agents rushing Belgal’s parked car in Marble Hill at around 4 p.m.

with guns drawn, before he peeled away, and out of the view of the CCTV cameras.Marcos Charles, the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division, said Belgal “accelerated” at the agents, “smashing” into two of them.Homeland Securit...