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Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ]
#8316928 - 04/22/08 11:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings of Elizabeth drug ring April 23, 2008 - Star Ledger
For months, members of the notorious Latin Kings of Elizabeth ruled a drug and weapons operation that took in some $400,000 a week.
The group's members worked round-the-clock, on eight-hour shifts, and tended to lines of customers looking for cocaine and marijuana, be it retail or wholesale.
Yesterday, the brisk business was stilled after pre-dawn raids that swept through the city and parts of Union, Essex, Hunterdon and Somerset counties.
About 300 officers from the local, state and federal levels, backed up by SWAT teams, stormed 21 suspected stash houses and hiding spots in Elizabeth, Garwood, Newark, Whitehouse Station and Neshanic Station.
There were 20 arrests, among them a mother who allegedly laundered money for her two drug dealing sons, said Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow at a press conference in Elizabeth yesterday.
"It was a home run," Romankow said of the raids. "We took out the upper echelon of the Latin Kings in Elizabeth."
Some $86,000 in cash, nine vehicles, four loaded handguns, a loaded shotgun, 1 1/2 kilograms of cocaine plus the gang's manifesto were seized in the raids that began Sunday and ended yesterday morning.
Romankow said the Latin Kings operation was significant, moving kilos of cocaine every week. The arrests helped to remove about half of the known members of the Latin Kings of Elizabeth, according to Romankow.
Members of the gang's senior management have been arrested, according to Romankow, including Luis "King Blue" Medina, 28, of Cherry Street in Elizabeth. Medina presides over the Elizabeth chapter, Romankow said.
Jesus Gomez and his half-brother, Roberto Torres, were in charge of Elizabeth's cocaine operation, Romankow said. Their mother, Maria Gomez, who is building a mansion on Pleasant Run Road in Neshanic Station, laundered the profits from the drug business, the prosecutor said.
The defendants are being held on various drug charges, from racketeering to conspiracy.
Romankow pushed for high bails -- $2.7 million for Jesus Gomez, 27, who was nabbed at 1279 Clinton Place in Elizabeth, and $2 million for Roberto Torres, 26, of 31 Niles Street in Elizabeth.
Maria Gomez, 48, who lives in Whitehouse Station, must post $1 million bail.
Medina's bail was also set at $1 million.
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: veggie]
#8317044 - 04/22/08 11:55 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Man, i thought the Latin Kings were dead these days
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: asian_raggs]
#8317398 - 04/23/08 01:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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They where on the show Gangland on history.com...
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: Brainiac]
#8317903 - 04/23/08 08:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I saw that Gangland shit on History Channel.
Your never going to have a gang die out, especially the Latin Kings. I wish all those ignorant gangs would die out, it would defiantly make the world safer.
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: veggie]
#8318491 - 04/23/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I bet I bought drugs from some of these people at one time. I used to know a fuck load of LKs out when I used to chill in Elizabeth, most of them were pretty cool people.
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: fapjack]
#8318590 - 04/23/08 12:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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wow, I live in one of those towns!I will assure you that there are no latin kings in my town!
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: danlennon3]
#8319528 - 04/23/08 04:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Whitehouse Station or Neshanic Station?
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: danlennon3]
#8320948 - 04/23/08 09:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
danlennon3 said: wow, I live in one of those towns!I will assure you that there are no latin kings in my town!
80% of the ALKQN work and blend in with society, the soldiers you see all tatted up with 5 pieces and shit are the minority.
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Re: Cops arrest 20, bust up Latin Kings drug ring [NJ] [Re: Chemy]
#8320951 - 04/23/08 09:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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All the LKs I knew looked like typical gang members to me.
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