Trinitarios Gang Members Who Operated Uptown Busted by Feds

Trinitarios Gang Members Who Operated Uptown Busted by Feds

December 7, 2011 9:08pm

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Authorities arrested 50 members of the Bronx Trinitarios Gang on Dec. 7, 2011. (Glock, gun, bullet)

By Carla Zanoni and Ben Fractenberg

DNAinfo Staff

MANHATTAN — Fifty members of the violent Trinitarios gang that terrorized The Bronx and operated in sections of Upper Manhattan were rounded up Wednesday on a slew of charges from racketeering to drugs and guns, authorities said.

The arrests came after a two-year investigation into the Dominican gang, which engaged in narcotics trafficking, murder and attempted murder, according to federal authorities.

Sources said that the crew operated in Upper Manhattan as well as Marble Hill and investigators were "still looking at other individuals" in the area.

“For nearly eight years, the Trinitarios street gang terrorized a wide swath of the Bronx with their drug dealing and violence," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement. "Gangs like the Trinitarios are a cancer on New York’s neighborhoods — both in the physical harm they inflict and the atmosphere of despair they create."

The arrests are the second large bust of the gang in two years. More than 40 members of the gang based out of Washington Heights were charged with selling marijuana, cocaine and crack cocaine in 2009.

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