Trinitarios gang members busted on gunpoint robbery spree
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A group of individuals, including a 16-year-old, was apprehended on Friday following a series of armed robberies that resulted in the theft of $100,000 worth of jewelry.

These alleged members of the Trinitarios gang targeted seven victims over the span of two weeks, snatching chains and watches. Among their victims was an elderly man who was so traumatized by the incident that he decided to leave the Bronx permanently, as reported by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark.

A shocking video captures the moment the senior citizen, visibly distressed, retreats to his stoop in Kingsbridge. He pleads as a masked assailant aims a gun at him, ultimately surrendering his jewelry.


Bronx District Attorney, Darcel Clark
Bronx District Attorney, Darcel Clark announced the indictment Friday. J.C. Rice

According to Clark, the man relocated from the area just two weeks after the incident.

Additional footage presented by prosecutors reveals the assailants approaching unsuspecting victims with weapons drawn, while an accomplice waits nearby on a moped for a quick escape.

The mask-wearing gangsters — part of a subset of the Trinitarios crew known as the BB7 — allegedly targeted victims who were wearing gold chains or expensive watches and rings starting Sept. 20.

They would hold the victims at gunpoint and forcibly remove the jewelry before meeting at one of two Bronx motels to inspect their treasures, prosecutors said.


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The crew targeted seven victims in two weeks, prosecutors said. 4kclips – stock.adobe.com

Their victims included a Mott Haven business owner and a man they caught standing outside a nightclub in Fordham Heights.

The group caught several others by driving up to the victims and blocking them inside their cars, prosecutors alleged.

Fortunately, none of the robberies resulted in any shootings.

“This case involves five defendants, allegedly Trinitarios members, one of them is a 16-year-old boy,” Clark said Friday.

“They allegedly put guns to victims’ heads or chests and stole their jewelry in a spree of seven robberies in two weeks. They accosted people of various ages in different areas of the Bronx, causing fear on our streets,” he continued.

“We have to get these guns off of our streets and as long as there is a gun in the criminal’s hand, there is a risk that it’s going to be used.”

The bandits are identified as Wilfren Carbuccia, 20 and Anthony Perez, 29, both of the Bronx, and Manuel Rivas, 20, of Newark, New Jersey.

The 16-year-old has not been named and a fifth man is still at large.

All five are indicted on a slew of robbery, grand larceny and conspiracy charges, while Rivas faces additional charges for criminal possession of a firearm.

The teen gangbanger is also charged in a separate robbery that saw the boy allegedly holding a pistol with an extended magazine to a man’s chest and stealing his watch and gold chain.

He and Carbuccia were both arraigned Thursday. The teen was held on a $100,000 bail, while the man was remanded.

Perez and Rivas are still waiting arraignment.

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