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AOC's 'Red Light' district ruled by violent migrant gang taken down by feds
Fox News ^ | 7/10/25 | Michael Dorgan

Posted on 07/10/2025 6:11:42 AM PDT by Libloather

Several members of a violent migrant gang accused of "unleashing terror" to maintain control of a notorious crime strip represented by progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Grace Meng have been taken down by police in a major bust.

Eight members of the ruthless 18th Street transnational gang are accused of carrying out several brutal beatings and stabbings to maintain their dominance of the Roosevelt Avenue commercial corridor in Queens. They also distributed fake passports and counterfeit currency, dealt drugs and trafficked firearms while extorting businesses for rent payments, prosecutors said.

Seven of the eight gangbangers are in the country illegally, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office told Fox News Digital. They are all members and associates of the 18th Street gang, which was formed by Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles in the 1960s and today has members throughout the United States as well as in Mexico and Central America, prosecutors said.

The suspects "are accused of unleashing terror onto Queens communities through brutal assaults, extortion, fraud, and drug trafficking," Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.

Their turf spanned the two-mile commercial strip, which has been a crime and illegal prostitution hot spot for years and has been extensively reported on by Fox News Digital.

Locals have likened it to a "Red Light district" or a third-world flea market, given the sidewalks are often full of women soliciting sex as well as vendors selling all sorts of stolen or counterfeit goods and unregulated hot food. Fox News Digital witnessed at least 30 women soliciting sex on one block on the strip following Ocasio-Cortez’s town hall recently.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: aoc; bartendersinthenooz; bronx; feds; gang

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The socialist bartender is from the Bronx. She said so.
1 posted on 07/10/2025 6:11:42 AM PDT by Libloather
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There’s more -

Shady NYC neighborhood dubbed ‘Broadway of the Bronx’ remains drug, trash-infested nightmare: ‘Worst I’ve ever seen it’

https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/business-as-usual-at-the-grimy-drug-infested-broadway-of-the-bronx-worst-ive-ever-seen-it/


2 posted on 07/10/2025 6:12:42 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

How’s she going to earn tips now?


3 posted on 07/10/2025 6:15:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Libloather

Shouda left them alone and let her explain it but then those kinda places are targets of opportunity.


4 posted on 07/10/2025 6:16:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Libloather
...selling all sorts of stolen or counterfeit goods and unregulated hot food...

I hear some of that street chili can set you free.
5 posted on 07/10/2025 6:18:03 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Libloather

I’m pretty sure that if the Millennials and Gen Zers were around during World War II, we’d be speaking German and/or Japanese right now. Those student loan deadbeats gone wild tend to side with America’s enemies and foreign invaders of America.


6 posted on 07/10/2025 6:21:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemonRAT politicians say that their voters are all murderers who want American blood for illegals.)
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To: ComputerGuy

I’d be wary of the street mayonnaise too.


7 posted on 07/10/2025 6:28:03 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Libloather

To make it permanent, take down AOC, she’s the problem.


8 posted on 07/10/2025 6:32:17 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Libloather

Yorktown girl living in a yorktown world


9 posted on 07/10/2025 6:39:49 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: BigFreakinToad

I was in East Los Angeles.

They had sidewalk eateries just like those in Mexico.

The food looked to be pretty good in both places, but I’m short of molars. I had teeth extracted and will wait until my jawbones remodel to have dentures made.


10 posted on 07/10/2025 6:41:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sirius Lee

Knee pads at meetings


11 posted on 07/10/2025 6:46:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Brian Griffin

now a days, I don’t think I would buy food off the street. “Add a couple grains of Fentanyl to the gringo’s taco”.


12 posted on 07/10/2025 7:03:18 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Libloather
What AOC is trying to protect in her district:

DA92-AFD7-9-B93-40-EE-818-E-214-D9-F0-A549-C

13 posted on 07/10/2025 8:09:00 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: chopperk

AMEN


14 posted on 07/10/2025 10:19:36 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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