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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How’s she going to earn tips now?
Shouda left them alone and let her explain it but then those kinda places are targets of opportunity.
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.
I’d be wary of the street mayonnaise too.
To make it permanent, take down AOC, she’s the problem.
Yorktown girl living in a yorktown world
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.
Knee pads at meetings
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”.
AMEN
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