Amaury Guzmán, Jonathan Rodríguez, Ian Diez and Ruffi Fernández, alleged members of the Dominican gang Trinitarios, have been accused of leading violence and death on the streets of Queens (NYC), committing several shootings, car thefts and a homicide in 2022, the feds alleged.
The multiple charges came to light in a superseding criminal indictment unsealed in the Tribunal Federal de Brooklyn on Wednesday. Guzmán (24) and Rodríguez (22) could receive life sentences if convicted, while Fernández (26) faces up to 20 years and Diez (19) up to 15, he indicated. Daily News.
“The defendants repeatedly and violently terrorized the community with multiple shootings and armed carjackings,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Wednesday. “Members of our community should not have to live in fear of gun violence in their homes, on the streets or in their cars.”
“Members of our community should not have to live in fear of gun violence.”
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Guzmán and Rodríguez are accused of homicide of young Tao Wu (25), who was shot during a failed robbery of his BMW car on 37th Street near Parsons Blvd. in Flushing on November 20, 2022.
Guzmán, Rodríguez and others allegedly stole a Mercedes-Benz sedan in a driveway in Carteret, New Jersey, and then drove to New York, where they found Wu sitting in a BMW 440 coupe parked about a mile away from his car. home, prosecutors allege. When trying to steal it They shot him, the young man accelerated, crashed into a sidewalk and overturned the carwhile the gang members fled, authorities allege.
Paramedics took Wu to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, where he died. Initially, police officers did not know he had been shot, but a medical examination revealed the fatal gunshot wound.
He was killed as part of a four-day crime spree in Queens that had begun on November 19, 2022, when Guzmán, Fernández and other unspecified accomplices attempted rob a marijuana dealerpulling up in a car and shooting his passenger in the neck, the feds allege.
The violence continued for months. Authorities caught Rodriguez in late 2022 and Guzman last February, when they linked him to an iPhone found at the scene of Wu’s robbery and car accident.
Diez and Fernandez were arrested by the feds in June 2023. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
The Trinitarios gang is linked to brutal crimes in New Yorkincluding the death by machetes of fifteen-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzmán Feliz in the Bronx in 2018.
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