A pair of Cuban migrants wanted on attempted murder charges in Florida were nabbed with a gun after checking into a city-run Queens shelter on Thursday, police and sources said.
Jaroscar Chavez Silva, 36, and his 30-year-old brother Roshiel Chavez Silva, were on the lam after the Oct. 3 near-fatal shooting in Orlando when they got off a bus in the Big Apple and checked into the massive shelter at the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital, the sources said.
The two were sought on a warrant issued in Florida on Sept. 16 and were tracked to the five boroughs by the US Marshals Service, according to sources.
Sources said the brothers were hiding out in the city for days or weeks before they checked into the shelter and were nabbed.
It’s unclear how and when they made their way into the US and whether they had legal permission to be in the country.
The fugitives were questioned at the 105th Precinct stationhouse.
Jaroscar Chavez Silva, who was later led out of the station in handcuffs, was due to be arraigned on two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in Queens Criminal Court, the NYPD said.
He turned away from news cameras and said nothing — with federal agents glaring at him — as he was led into a waiting squad car.
His brother is not being charged in New York but has been turned over to Marshals and is due to be extradited to Florida, according to authorities.
Orlando police and Marshals Service officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 1,000-bed Creedmoor shelter is one of dozens of facilities across the five boroughs retrofitted to handle the flood of migrants from the US border now in the city.
Creedmoor and other shelters have been the subject of protests by residents and officials up in arms over sporadic outbreaks of violence — including by members of the vicious Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, which has used the facilities to launch a local crime wave.