Criminal illegal migrant shot by ICE tormented NYC apartment building with machete, neighbor claims: Menace to society
The illegal immigrant shot by ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbor’s nephew with a machete — and a terrified resident of the apartment building told The Post Saturday he is relieved the accused violent gangbanger has finally been taken off the streets.Oscar Belgal, who federal authorities said is a “criminal illegal alien” from the Dominican Republic with alleged ties to the violent Trinitarios street gang, wreaked havoc in the halls of the Washington Heights apartment building where he lived until about a year ago, according to locals.“He’s a menace to society,” one shaken resident said of Belgal — who Mayor Zohran Mamdani outrageously called a “New Yorker” whose he tried to negotiate as he railed against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“I spoke to him once and told him, ‘Look, you need to be more submissive because I see you acting too reckless’ … He thought he was a tough guy,” the resident told The Post.The former neighbor, a man from the Dominican Republic who withheld his name, recalled one of Belgal’s most unhinged outbursts while living there — in which he pulled a machete on another resident’s nephew.He claimed Belgal got into a fight with the man outside the building last year, prompting him to whip out the deadly weapon.
The neighbor also claimed Belgal, who he described as arrogant and smug, previously dodged ICE by running down one of the building’s two fire escapes.“They were looking for him.It seems he had a pending case; Immigration goes after people who have committed crimes,” he said.
“Immigration is just doing its job.They go after those who have committed crimes.”Belgal’s rap sheet includes an 2023 armed robbery conviction and a 2025 arrest for allegedly selling lethal drugs like fentanyl, cocaine and heroin in a case that remains open.
His most recent run-in with the law was Thursday when two plainclothes ICE agents, with guns drawn, approached the front ...