Operation Salvo launched in New York targets dozens of Trinitarios gang members

(The Center Square) – A multiagency law enforcement operation, Operation Salvo, was launched in New York after an off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer was shot in New York City last year by Trinitarios gang members.

So far, 54 people have been arrested in New York through Operation Salvo; more than 60% have been deported, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The violent gang was founded by Dominicans in New York City in 1993 but has since expanded throughout New York and Massachusetts, federal and state officials have found. Trinitarios gang members are involved in weapons trafficking, human smuggling, narcotics distribution, armed robberies, and violent attacks, DHS says.

“Operation Salvo is just the beginning of a broader and a much more sustained effort to go after not only transnational criminal organ...