16 members of NYC gang affiliated with the notorious Trinitarios charged by feds

Sixteen members of a New York City street gang affiliated with the famous Dominican gang Trinitarios were charged on Tuesday in connection to a string of robberies in the city last year.

The members of the “Own Every Dollar” gang, or “OED” for short, allegedly committed five murders, 12 attempted murders, several high-end robberies, and dealt drugs over the past four years.

The violent gang is suspected of being behind several robberies in which they would steal watches and jewelry from patrons at trendy places and then sell them for a hefty price.

In one of the high-profile robberies, for example, the gang members targeted two customers eating at Philippe Chow on the Upper East side. They pulled out their guns and demanded them to hand over their jewelry, according to the indictment filed by the Manhattan District Attorney.

The gang is also accused of committing a number of high-profile killings. One of their victims was Jeffrey Sanchez, 35, who was killed by a 16-year-old OED member as we walked to his car on September 21, 2021. The gang members allegedly swiped the victim’s Cartier watch and left him to die on the street.

In another incident, OED members approached a victim from behind near East 30th Street and Broadway. They put a gun to his head and stole a Cuban diamond chain, three tennis necklaces, three medallions, two crosses with diamonds, a large diamond crucifix pendant, and eight bracelets, according to the New York Post.

OED was based out of Washington Heights, but had turf in the Bronx and Queens as well. The gang operates as a subset of the Trinitarios, a Dominican street gang founded in the 90s on Rikers Island.

“These individuals lived by a brutal code of street violence – where firearms were recklessly pulled out and indiscriminately fired, where innocent lives were disregarded, where families and neighborhoods were traumatized and torn apart,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement Tuesday.