Two armed men suspected to be Venezuelan illegal aliens executed a brazen carjacking of an off-duty NYPD officer in Harlem on Friday night, according to law enforcement sources.

The officer was targeted while seated in his personal 2020 BMW at West 146 Street and Bradhurst Avenue, as the two suspects, sporting tattoos linked to a Venezuelan gang, approached him with guns drawn around 11:30 p.m.

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Following a threat, one of the assailants disarmed the officer and demanded his car keys before fleeing the scene in the stolen vehicle, vanishing into the night.

The heist involved a firearm equipped with a glock switch, allowing it to fire fully automatic rounds, a rarity in New York City.

Aided by the officer’s iPad signal, law enforcement was able to locate the vacant stolen vehicle at West 138th Street and Broadway.

After an extensive search of the area, the suspects were located and apprehended, with two firearms being recovered from the scene.

Though the men identified themselves as Jomar Crespo, 21, and Jose Rivera, 20, sharing an address in Waterbury, Conn., law enforcement authorities suspect that the provided names may be false.

Rivera and Crespo are facing charges including robbery, grand theft auto, possession of a machine gun, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of stolen property, gun modification for rapid-fire, and illegal possession of an ammunition feed device.

This incident marks the second recent attack on the NYPD involving illegal aliens, after a 19-year-old individual with ties to a Venezuelan gang shot two officers in a separate incident in June.

One of the alleged perpetrators, Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, who illegally crossed into the US in July through Texas, confessed to being recruited by a violent Venezuelan gang in the city and encouraged to display allegiance through distinctive tattoos.

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