Trinitarios gangbangers charged with killingNYC influencer who starred in Tekashi 6ix9ine music video
Nearly a dozen members of the gruesome Trinitarios street gang were indicted Monday for five murders — including the killing of a Big Apple influencer who starred in a Tekashi 6ix9ine music video, the feds announced.Eleven gang members from Bad Boys 7, a faction of the Trinitarios street and prison gang also known as BB7, were hit with numerous charges connected to a spate of violent crimes in the Bronx, New Jersey, and the Hudson Valley.Federal prosecutors unsealed a 15-count indictment charging the suspects with murder, assault, robbery, carjacking, narcotics trafficking and wire fraud between September 2023 and September 2025 — including the gunpoint robbery of an international record artist.“As alleged, the BB7 Trinitarios, operating from their historical headquarters in the Bronx, terrorized communities in New York City, Westchester, and northern New Jersey, night after night,” US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.The gang bust charges six alleged BB7 members — Justin Martha, Michael Mercedes Marte, Jose Peralta Gomez, Manuel Abad Rivas, Wilfren Carbuccia and Jeilin Portes Guaba — with the August 2025 slaying of 32-year-old social media star Ariela La Langosta.She was shot multiple times and found dead in her car on the Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon.La Langosta, whose real name was Ariela Mejia-Polanco, had once starred in rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine’s “Wapae” music video and boasted more over half a million followers on Instagram, where she regularly shared fashion and modeling content.She was gunned down after the sextet tried to carjack her black Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG SUV, federal prosecutors said.Darwin Martinez, an alleged member of the gang known as “Mole,” was separately charged with the July 2025 murders of Gabriel Alvarez and Adam Waldropt at a Bronx car meet.The other killings occurred in the Bronx and in Newark and Paterson, the feds said.Some of the Trinitarios members were also charged with the June 2025 gunpoint robb...