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FBI urged to probe NYC’s seedy ‘Market of Sweethearts’ for ‘foreign national’ crime syndicates
NY Post ^ | 8/17/25 | Carl Campanile, Dorian Geiger

Posted on 08/18/2025 1:01:18 AM PDT by Libloather

Queens activists are demanding the FBI investigate the “foreign national” crime syndicates turning seedy Roosevelt Avenue into a “gangland” — claiming the criminals pose a national security threat.

“We request that you initiate an investigation into what we understand are gangs engaging in criminal enterprises including human trafficking, illegal narcotics sales and the mass distribution of fraudulent documents which poses a national security threat,” wrote Rosa Sanchez, head of the Restore Roosevelt Avenue Coalition, and Democratic district leader Hiram Monserrate in an Aug. 14 letter to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Federal intervention is required because state and local laws are limited and inadequate to address the problem, the activists said.

In their missive, Sanchez and Monserrate thanked the FBI and other agencies in the Trump administration for prosecuting members of migrant gangs — including the Venezuelan-based Tren de Aragua and the 18th Street gang, which regularly extort brothels, beat rivals and sell drugs and phony IDs to finance an illicit network based in El Salvador.

“However, both gangs continue to operate in our community and we impress upon you that more needs to be done to keep our community safe,” they told the FBI director.

They noted that the NYPD has made more than 500 prostitution-related arrests thus far this year along what is called “The Market of Sweethearts,” but brothels continue to operate.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: aoc; crime; fbi; sweethearts

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1 posted on 08/18/2025 1:01:18 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Yea. AOC killed 25k high paying Amazon jobs for brothels with illegal alien sex slaves. Socialism.


2 posted on 08/18/2025 2:53:00 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Libloather

BTTT


3 posted on 08/18/2025 3:40:46 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: Libloather

Before we begin, a question:

How many of these “Queens activists” vote democrat over and over?


4 posted on 08/18/2025 4:26:33 AM PDT by wny (s)
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To: Libloather

We should only allow in as many criminals as we already have competent agents to investigate.

Dei hires, and criminals let in, it is too much.


5 posted on 08/18/2025 6:46:03 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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