The Gateway Pundit reported that last week, off-duty NYPD detective Jose Mercedes was brutally attacked during a robbery attempt in broad daylight.
While Mercedes was clearing out the trunk of his car, two men on an e-bike approached him and reached for his gold chain.
Mercedes fought back and was brutally stabbed at least seven times to the neck and leg.
The accused slasher was identified as 25-year-old D’Angelo Caraballo, and his getaway driver was ID’d as 24-year-old Sneider Mejia.
Fox News’s Bill Melugin reported that both suspects are alleged to be Dominican illegals.
”I’m told by DHS sources that the two suspects wanted for attempted murder in connection to the stabbing & robbery of an off-duty NYPD detective in NYC on Friday are both Dominican illegal aliens who were caught and released at the AZ border by the Biden administration & both have lengthy criminal histories in NYC, including an ignored ICE detainer.”
The two have been on the run since the attack, but the officials announced the duo is in custody after being found in a basement in Massachusetts.
UPDATE: NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force with support from the Boston Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested D’Angelo Caraballo and Sneider Mejia overnight in Lynn, Massachusetts for the attempted murder of an off-duty NYPD detective last Friday. The suspects were hiding in the basement of a house when they were apprehended.
Thank you to the @USMarshalsHQ for their support on this case. If you come for one of us, you’ll have the full force of the NYPD coming for you.
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) October 7, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security shared video of Detective Mercedes being released from the hospital.
TWO illegal aliens who are accused of stabbing an off duty NYPD detective should have NEVER been allowed into our country.
Dangelo Rafael Jean Caraballo and Sneider Mejia Bautista, both illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic, were RELEASED into the country by the Biden Administration.
Despite multiple prior arrests in New York, sanctuary politicians refused to cooperate with ICE and released them.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 6, 2026
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