Two Tren de Aragua migrant gang members arrested in a drug raid at a New York City auto body shop were released without bail after Queens prosecutors reduced the charges.

According to the New York Post, Jose Tamaronis-Caldera, 27, and Richard Garcia, 33, were nabbed on felony drug and gun charges during the Feb. 5 raid at V&R Auto and Collision, along with shop owner Rafael Nieves, 54.

Once the case got to court, however, Queens prosecutors knocked down the migrants’ charges to a misdemeanor count of possession of an air gun, which allowed them to go free without bail.

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