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Sign in to saveThe Trinitarios is a Dominican American criminal organization founded by Dominicans in New York City in 1993. They were described by the US Justice Department in 2009 as lower-level distributors and one of "the smaller Dominican criminal groups and street gangs", although larger and more structured than the "hundreds of small, unaffiliated neighborhood gangs" in the New York - New Jersey HIDTA.
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- History
- Membership, organization, and criminal activities
- Notable crimes committed by members
- Murder of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz (2018)
- References
The Trinitarios is a Dominican American criminal organization founded by Dominicans in New York City in 1993. They were described by the US Justice Department in 2009 as lower-level distributors and one of "the smaller Dominican criminal groups and street gangs", although larger and more structured than the "hundreds of small, unaffiliated neighborhood gangs" in the New York - New Jersey HIDTA.
==History== The Trinitarios were established in 1993 on Rikers Island, the New York City jail, by two Dominicans facing separate murder charges—Leonides "Junito" Sierra and Julio "Caballo" Marine. The Trinitarios on the East Coast was built in Rikers Island prison to protect mainly Dominicans and other Hispanic nationalities from African American gangs or other American gangs. This Dominican gang is considered to be the first Latino gang that originated in New York City and then later spread out to the whole northeastern region of United States. The group was named for three revolutionaries of the Dominican War of Independence; its slogan is Dios, patria y libertad (the official motto of the Dominican Republic, "God, homeland and liberty"). Their colors are lime green, as well as red, blue, and white (the colors of the Dominican Republic flag).