Exclusive | Bloodthirsty Venezuelan gangsters might be pimping migrant women in NYCs Market of Sweethearts: cops
The NYPD is investigating if the deadly Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is pimping women in Queens’ “Market of Sweethearts” — where dozens of prostitutes boldly plied their trade this week in defiance of a law-enforcement crackdown.It was business as usual on the notorious sex corridor along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights when The Post visited Tuesday night, less than a week after the NYPD and State Police kicked off their operation to fight the scourge of sex trafficking that has soared with the migrant influx to the city.Even as 30 officers patrolled the area, a fiery red-head in a sequined top brazenly offered a Post reporter “$100 for sexo” on 76th Street, cooing that the good times would last “40 minutes” and would include oral sex.She suddenly groped the scribe before turning her attention to a scraggly john holding out a wad of cash. Two blocks away, in front of a closed medical office, a curvy Spanish-speaking prostitute in a tube top cooed, “$100 my love.The service covers everything.” Asked whether she or a trio of other skimpily-dressed girls on the block knew about Tren de Aragua, she replied, “What? No,” and shook her head.Yet across the street, a pair of men wearing head-to-toe black, red and white Chicago Bulls shirts and shorts — the trademark colors of the migrant gang that has made its way to the Big Apple — appeared to be keeping tabs on the women.Later, another man wearing a white Michael Jordan jersey — bearing the number 23, another gang sign — was seen near 75th Street.
The gang frequently wears Chicago Bulls clothing because of the team’s colors, police said.Investigators have identified Tren de Aragua members with suspected hookers on Roosevelt Avenue in videos gang members have posted on social media, Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said this week.“How’d we identify them?” he asked.“They had the hat on – the 23 Bulls hat.
They had the 23 tattoo.They had the red and whi...