<p>Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, a&nbsp;migrant from Venezuela, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on attempted murder charges stemming from the shooting early Monday of&nbsp;two NYPD officers from Long Island, officials said.</p>


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