A crew of gangbangers — that included a 16-year-old boy — was busted Friday after carrying out a string of gunpoint robberies that netted them $100,000 in stolen jewelry.
The alleged Trinitarios members yanked chains and watches off seven victims in a two-week span, including an elderly man who was so shaken he moved out of the Bronx for good, according to Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark.
A distressing video shows the senior desperately backing up to his Kingsbridge stoop and pleading as a masked gunman points the weapon at his chest before giving up his jewelry.
That man packed up and moved out of the area within two weeks, Clark said.
Other clips shared by prosecutors show the bandits running up to their unwitting victims with guns drawn as one getaway driver waits on a moped.
The mask-wearing gangsters — part of a subset of the Trinitarios crew known as the BB7 — allegedly targeted victims who were wearing gold chains or expensive watches and rings starting Sept. 20.
They would hold the victims at gunpoint and forcibly remove the jewelry before meeting at one of two Bronx motels to inspect their treasures, prosecutors said.
Their victims included a Mott Haven business owner and a man they caught standing outside a nightclub in Fordham Heights.
The group caught several others by driving up to the victims and blocking them inside their cars, prosecutors alleged.
Fortunately, none of the robberies resulted in any shootings.
“This case involves five defendants, allegedly Trinitarios members, one of them is a 16-year-old boy,” Clark said Friday.
“They allegedly put guns to victims’ heads or chests and stole their jewelry in a spree of seven robberies in two weeks. They accosted people of various ages in different areas of the Bronx, causing fear on our streets,” he continued.
“We have to get these guns off of our streets and as long as there is a gun in the criminal’s hand, there is a risk that it’s going to be used.”
The bandits are identified as Wilfren Carbuccia, 20 and Anthony Perez, 29, both of the Bronx, and Manuel Rivas, 20, of Newark, New Jersey.
The 16-year-old has not been named and a fifth man is still at large.
All five are indicted on a slew of robbery, grand larceny and conspiracy charges, while Rivas faces additional charges for criminal possession of a firearm.
The teen gangbanger is also charged in a separate robbery that saw the boy allegedly holding a pistol with an extended magazine to a man’s chest and stealing his watch and gold chain.
He and Carbuccia were both arraigned Thursday. The teen was held on a $100,000 bail, while the man was remanded.
Perez and Rivas are still waiting arraignment.
