Police charge 31 Newburgh Latin Kings in murder, racketeering probe | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal

Police charge 31 Newburgh Latin Kings in murder, racketeering probe | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal: "ndictment charging 31 members and associates of the Latin Kings gang in Newburgh with racketeering, murder and attempted murder, and a number of other federal crimes. The original indictment was
filed last May.

Today’s superseding indictment charges members of the gang with three murders: the murder of Jeffrey Zachary in May 2008, the murder of Jerome Scarlett in March 2010, and the murder of John Maldonado in March 2010.

The defendants are also charged with two attempted murders, attempted robbery, assault, conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, heroin, powder cocaine,
and marijuana, the use and possession of firearms in connection with the crimes of violence and drug distribution conspiracy, and witness tampering, from 2007 through the present."

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