Four members of the Trinitarios street gang were charged in Brooklyn federal court with multiple shootings and armed carjackings across Queens. File photo by Lloyd Mitchell
A superseding indictment was filed in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday charging four members of the Trinitarios street gang with a string of violent crimes across Queens including multiple shootings and armed carjackings between November 2022 and February 2023.
Jonathan Rodriguez, 22, of Queens, Amaury Guzmán, 24, and Ian “Gallina” Diez, 19, both from Brooklyn, and Ruffi “Mojatoto’ Fernández, 26, of Staten Island, were previously arrested and will be arraigned on the superseding indictment at a later date.
As alleged in the indictment and court filings, Guzmán, Fernández and others conspired to rob a marijuana dealer in Queens on Nov. 19, 2022. Guzmán approached the victim as he sat inside a parked car with a companion in the passenger seat. Guzmán allegedly fired a shot into the victim’s car, wounding the passenger in the neck. The passenger survived but underwent extensive surgery to remove the bullet from his neck.
The following day, shortly after midnight on Nov. 20, Guzmán and others stole a white Mercedes Benz sedan from the driveway of a residence in Carteret, New Jersey and drove it to Queens. Later that evening using the stolen Mercedes, Guzmán and Rodriguez approached the driver of a parked BMW 440 sports coupe.
Rodriguez pulled out a firearm and fired at the Tao Wu as he sped away. The victim was shot once in the back, quickly losing control of his car which flipped over onto a sidewalk. Wu died from the gunshot wound moments later.
Two days later, on Nov. 22, 2022, Guzmán, Rodriguez and others once again used the stolen Mercedes to approach a victim who had recently parked his BMW X5 in front of 80-49 Kent St. in Jamaica. The crew attacked the victim at gunpoint and stole the keys to his BMW X5. They drove off in the stolen Mercedes and the victim’s BMW…
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