Gangbangers Indicted for Five Murders in New York
Charges also include assault, robbery, carjacking, narcotics trafficking and wire fraud that took place over 2 years.
Nearly a dozen members of the Trinitarios street gang were indicted Monday for five murders—including Ariela La Langosta, a close friend of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine.
Eleven gang members from Bad Boys 7 (BB7), a faction of the Trinitarios street/prison gang, were hit with numerous charges connected to a spate of violent crimes in the Bronx, New Jersey, and the Hudson Valley.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a 15-count indictment charging the gangbangers with murder, assault, robbery, carjacking, narcotics trafficking and wire fraud that took place over 2 years—including the gunpoint robbery of an internationally known record artist.
US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement:
“As alleged, the BB7 Trinitarios, operating from their historical headquarters in the Bronx, terrorized communities in New York City, Westchester, and northern New Jersey, night after night.”
The gang bust charges six BB7 members—Justin Martha, Michael Mercedes Marte, Jose Peralta Gomez, Manuel Abad Rivas, Wilfren Carbuccia and Jeilin Portes Guaba—with the August 2025 slaying of 32-year-old Ariela La Langosta.
She was shot multiple times and found dead in her car on the Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon.
She was gunned down after the gang members tried to carjack her black Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG SUV.
Darwin “Mole” Martinez, was separately charged with the July 2025 murders of Gabriel Alvarez and Adam Waldropt at a Bronx car meet.
Darwin Martinez, an alleged member of the gang known as “Mole,” was separately charged with the July 2025 murders of two non-Whites, Gabriel Alvarez and Adam Waldropt at a Bronx car meet.
The other killings occurred in the Bronx and in Newark and Paterson, the feds said.
Some of the Trinitarios members were also charged with the June 2025 gunpoint robbery of prominent Dominican musician Bulin 47.
The gangbangers allegedly used a GPS tracker to follow the rapper from Massachusetts to a hotel parking lot in Fort Lee, NJ and robbed him of high-value jewelry.
A twelfth defendant, Jarol Ledesma, was charged with Hobbs Act robbery and interstate stalking in connection with the gunpoint robbery.
NYPD Commissioner (((Jessica Tisch))) said in a statement that the takedown was a result of the NYPD’s “precision policing strategy and the police department’s “relentless work targeting dangerous gangs and guns.”
FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C. Barnacle, Jr. stated:
“Today’s outcome sends a clear message: this type of violence will never be tolerated in New York. The FBI New York Safe Streets Task Force remains steadfast in our mission to dismantle violent gangs, protect the American public, and deliver justice for the victims.”
The alleged Trinitarios gang members face life in prison if convicted of racketeering conspiracy.
All defendants were awaiting arraignment Monday.
We need armed citizens, gendarmes, as towns in Italy, other European towns and South Africa have.