The two suspects who were still at large after being indicted in connection with an attack on two police officers in Times Square last month have been arrested, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Police arrested one of the suspects in the Bronx on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said. NYPD officers took the second suspect into custody Wednesday morning, the DA’s office said.


What You Need To Know

  • The two suspects who were still at large after being indicted in connection with an attack on two police officers in Times Square last month have been arrested, prosecutors say

  • A total of seven people have been indicted in connection with the attack, which police say happened outside a migrant shelter on Jan. 27

  • The Manhattan district attorney's office last week released body camera and surveillance video that raised questions about the moments leading up to the attack

One of the suspects was arraigned Wednesday afternoon, while the second suspect is expected to be arraigned Thursday morning, according to the DA’s office. Five other people have also been indicted in connection with the attack, all of whom were arrested the week before their Feb. 8 indictments.

The indictments stem from an incident police say happened outside a migrant shelter in Times Square on Jan. 27. Two NYPD officers responded to the shelter on West 42nd Street around 8:30 p.m. that day after receiving a report of a disorderly group at the site, police said.

After the officers asked the group to move to West 41st Street, one of the officers pushed one of the suspects, Yohenry Brito, against a building, prosecutors said. A struggle ensued when the officers wrestled Brito to the ground as he tried to escape, surveillance video released by the DA’s office shows.

“Throughout the struggle, others from the group interfered with the officers,” prosecutors said in a statement of facts, “pulling, grabbing, or kicking the officers — and ultimately prevented the officers from gaining control over Brito.”

Brito, who authorities said fled the scene after the melee, was arrested on Jan. 31, according to prosecutors. He was being held on bail of $15,000, but was released from custody on Tuesday, city Department of Correction records show.

Brito and three of the other suspects — Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, Yorman Reveron and Kelvin Servita Arocha — have all been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one count of second-degree obstructing governmental administration.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Gomez-Izquiel grabbed one police officer and kicked one officer, while Reveron is accused of sending both officers to the ground.

Brito and a fifth suspect, Wilson Juarez, have each been charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence. Brito has also been charged with one count of third-degree hindering prosecution, while Juarez faces two counts of the same charge, according to prosecutors.

Bragg said neither Arocha nor Juarez attacked the officers, but prosecutors allege that Arocha kicked a police radio and that Juarez gave his jacket to Brito before Brito fled the scene.

Along with releasing the indictments last week, the DA’s office released body camera and surveillance video that raised questions about the moments leading up to the attack.

The footage showed that the situation escalated after Brito, in Spanish, compared one of the officers to the main character in the TV show “Ugly Betty.”

Robert Gangi, the director of the Police Reform Organizing Project, told NY1 he believed the officer who pushed Brito against the building “threw him up against the building for no good reason.”

Gomez-Izquiel was also arrested on charges of robbery and petit larceny in connection with a robbery police said happened at the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst on Tuesday.

Police said he and three other people stole around $600 worth of clothing from a Macy’s store. One of them also punched an employee in the face, according to police. The NYPD is still searching for three other people in connection with the alleged robbery.

Juarez and Arocha are both in ICE custody and are set to appear in court again on Friday, the DA’s office said. Brito and Gomez-Izquiel are due back in court that day as well, according to court records and the DA’s office.