FBI steps up pressure on gangs in AOC’s Queens red-light district

Exclusive: New York – The FBI has warned that it is preparing to break and dismantle across national gangs that helped convert a crowded commercial tape in the deputy. Alexandria Okasio Cortez A boycott at a hot point affected by the crime offered by illegal prostitution, drugs, human trafficking and violence.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Christopher Raya, Assistant FBI director responsible for the New York Office, said that he published several squares for patrols in the turbulent tape along Roosevelt Street in Queens and said that the agents are working strongly with “NYPD” to cut the snake’s head “in terms of gangs. Serve like Okasio Cortez.

The news comes after the local leaders repeated their invitations to the FBI director, Cash Patel, to finally crush the harsh gangs, as the concerned population maintains weekly protests outside what they say that well -known brothels are operating in the region, and often disguised as beauty salons.

the Heavy immigrant The neighborhood is often referred to as the red light area, as it is scars by garbage and unhealthy conditions, where illegal sellers sell unorganized food and suspected stolen goods.

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Earlier this summer, eight members in The eighteenth street gang was arrested In a major operation led by the FBI, she was accused of carrying out many beating and brutal stabbing to maintain their dominance on the tape. The eighteenth street gang began as a street carp in Los Angeles in the 1960s and is largely formed of Spanish and Latin members.

“What happened in June was only the tip of the iceberg. We just started there,” Raya told Fox News Digital in an interview with the FBI in Manhattan. “We have penetrated. We are watching you. One day, you will go to prison.”

Raya, the official of the office in New York, was appointed in his role in April and said that he made Roosevelt Street a top priority, as his mission has formed the broader Pattel strategy of “crushing” violent crime in major cities.

“One of the first messages I received from local officials in that area was talking about the crime problem,” Raya said. “Thus, for those local officials who sent us these messages again, we hear you. We are unabated to preserve this society safe.”

“I hear you. The FBI hears you. The director Patel hears you … we are working around the clock to clean this community.”

Christopher Raya, assistant director of the FBI responsible for the New York Office, is talking to Fox News Digital about the office’s publication of multiple teams of Roosevelt Street patrols in Queens. (Michael Durgan/Fox News Digital)

In addition to the eighteenth street gang, Raya said that many Asian gangs also work in the area.

“We are getting a lot of intelligence about Asian gangs … and of course, you have other streets based on the neighborhood and different partners there, it is clear that we are concerned,” he said.

Some locals say that the Venezuelan gang Trins de Aragoa and MS-13 work there as well.

New York Representatives Grace Meng and Alexandria Okasio. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Left, David de Deljado/Getty Erch, to the right.)

Raya, who previously worked in Washington as an assistant deputy director who supervises the fight against terrorism, said that the gangs on Roosevelt Street participate in a wide range of criminal activity, including armed theft, attacks and sex trafficking, as well as drugs and arms trafficking.

“All these gangs … they participate in everything. You may have certain parts of one gang that share, for example, prostitution, robbery, drug smuggling, and you may have another part of the gang that not only aims to drug. It is a type of Smorgasbord when it comes to these gangs.”

Raya said the gangs also benefit from prostitution and believe that many women working along Roosevelt Street are victims of trafficking.

Raya said: “It is clear that there are many sex workers we know are victims there. We still choose this somewhat, we publish this onions. We look at the angle of human trafficking, and we look at the angle of prostitution.”

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Meanwhile, the major Queens jury recently directed a 31 -year -old woman Sex trafficking The charges associated with at least two women, including one of them that she had brought from Mexico in 2022. The prosecutors say Valencia Eshviris forced the victim to prostitution on Roosevelt Street for $ 800 per night and beat her when she failed to meet the shares. Echverrias was already accused of allegedly forcing a transgender woman to prostitution and try to blackmail another victim.

Fox News Digital witnessed at least 30 women to exchange sex on one block on the tape earlier this year after the OCASIO-Cortez town hall.

Earlier this week, the police said the man was Several times in the back While the metro was riding on Roosevelt Street, while a man -made driver was two weeks ago, he had a 16 -year -old girl on the tape.

Meanwhile, Raya gang warned of the raids, which will come when the office is ready to pounce.

“There is a lot of work behind the scenes,” he said. “You will not tell us publicly until we prepare to do a group of gang members.”

United States lawyer Joseph Nusela Junior speaks at a press conference announcing a bust in June. (The US Prosecutor’s Office for the Eastern Region from New York via X EEDNYNEWS)

One of the largest frustrations of the local population was the feeling that brothels have still been in months and that the suspects were arrested only to return to the streets. Residents said that the 90 -day huge police campaign against the crime in the area late last year was placed in criminal activity, but this was short -term.

Raya raised a sharp contradiction with the FBI enforcement, indicating this during NYPD cases It often leads to rapid arrests and lighter penalties, the federal judicial prosecutions of the Federal Investigation Office allow for more strict fees. Laws that cover blackmail, human trafficking, drugs and arms trafficking carry more solid sentences and keep criminals behind bars for a longer period.

For example, NYPD FOX News Digital recently told its officers arrested 350 people so far this year for crimes related to prostitution in the besieged tape and around it.

Local leaders say that the “Bodiga Bodily House” near schools in the AOC red lighting area.

“when Federal Bureau of Investigation They are involved in the case, we tend to attack what the snake’s head is called. Our investigations are more complicated; “They take a little longer,” Raya said.

“But I think we can bring more resources and is usually in the federal system as well, those penalties tend to these violent crimes to be more solid, much longer … Many of these people do not come out of the outstanding trial … The penalties are more severe when they bring that federal hammer.”

former Democratic Senator Hiram Monsterit, Which was organizing weekly gatherings against brothels through the Roosevelt coalition, Roosevelt Street, and wrote to Patel, welcomed news of the increase of the FBI application.

Pictures: Critical to see pictures of the residents who protest, led by former Senator Hiram Monsterit

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“Because of the organized crime, we have become Wall Mart to the illegal sex trade in New York City and a criminal haven,” said Monsterit, a former police officer. He recalled the tape as a criminal axis in the 1990s before the New York police launched, but he said that the crime wave today is unprecedented.

“We welcome the full and medium participation of the Federal Investigation Office in the investigation of our society from the cartridges and street gangs that caused here … It is the only real option for a permanent solution that will achieve safety and stability.”

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Meng also welcomed the news and said she pressed more federal resources.

“These measures include to prosecute human trafficking, combat violent crime and gangs and enhance law enforcement financing and local states,” Meng told Fox News Digital.

“I also seek to obtain federal funds to support local initiatives, such as requesting a mobile driving center. As I said and still say, public safety and quality of life must be a top priority.”

OCASIO-Cortez did not respond to the Fox News Digital for Comment.