asons.

Both Reveron Ascanio and Rodriguez, a legal US resident residing in Queens, told NYPD detectives  that they entered the manhole together to look for valuables that get washed away in the storm drains and sewers,  according to a criminal complaint.

Investigators determined the men were part of a trend of  mole people  searching for scrap metal and lost valuables in the city system, and the incident was not related to Netanyahu's visit, authorities said.

Reveron Ascanio's defense lawyer wasn't aware of the federal ICE arrest.

 That's news to me,  attorney Brian Kennedy said when reached by The Post.

 This case is so petty,  he said of the manhole caper.

A federal arrest warrant had been issued for Reveron Ascanio two days before the sewer incident, an ICE spokesperson said.

4 The NYPD is probing a new video of people emerging from a New York City manhole. ricardyfabre/TikTok

The warrant stemmed from a Sept. 20 arrest for alleged criminal mischief in which he and two other males were allegedly stripping parts from a U-Haul van in a Queens parking lot, police sources said.

When police arrived, Reveron Ascanio was under the vehicle, and the men told cops they were repairing the van, the sources said. The men handed over a rental contract, but the company told cops the men didn't have permission to remove parts, according to the sources.

Reveron Ascanio also was also charged in the Sept. 24 manhole arrest with driving with a suspended license, the sources said.

He pleaded not guilty in the manhole case and was sprung on the non-bail eligible offense the next day by lefty Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne, court records show.

The same judge previously released sex-offender Gerardo Miguel Mora, a migrant from Mexico, despite a federal ICE detainer for his arrest.

4 The perpetrators use hooks to open up the manhole covers before climbing inside. WABC

Mora, 45, was in Manhattan Criminal Court on Jan. 29 to face a shoplifting charge from a day earlier, records show.

The NYPD said Jack-Browne should have seen a notation in the file that Mora was a wanted, deported felon.

He had been kicked out of the US in 2014 after serving a year and a half in an upstate prison for an attempted rape after following a woman home in Midtown, and he had a more recent crack-possession charge in Manhattan, according to police sources.

Court officials insisted the judge wasn't notified about the detainer even as New York's Finest doubled down and said the jurist was alerted.

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The judge let him go after his arraignment but federal agents busted him before he left the courthouse, law enforcement sources said.

Reveron Ascanio  entered the United States illegally in August 2022, but was released as a result of the Biden administration's open border policies,  the spokesperson said.

 Under President Trump and Secretary (Markwayne) Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the US,  the spokesperson said.  ICE is working diligently to remove these often violent, dangerous offenders from our communities. 

There have been several recent sightings of spelunkers climbing into and out of the city's sewer system.

Groups of men were twice spotted plunging into open manholes in Williamsburg and Gravesend in Brooklyn during the early morning hours May 29. In August, three headlamp-wearing, overalls-clad  Minions  doppelgangers were caught on camera popping out of a manhole near Penn Station.

Another  mole person  was spotted stepping out of a manhole in Middle Village, Queens in mid-September. And just last week, another threesome was spotted climbing out of a Bensonhurst sewer.

Additional reporting by Adry Torres