Los Trinitarios, a Latin American street gang, is reported to be recruiting children in the UK and is linked by some reporting to multiple knife killings in London. One outlet says the gang’s activities include violent attacks in which machetes are described as a preferred weapon.
The gang is described as having been founded in 1993 by two Dominicans who were held at Rikers Island jail in New York. Reporting also says the gang later expands across the United States, Central and South America, and Spain. Across the provided excerpts, the emphasis is on the gang’s alleged reach and violence, including claims about recruitment of minors in the UK.
While the details of specific cases are not provided in the supplied text beyond references to London killings, the overall theme across the sources is the alleged connection between Los Trinitarios’ UK recruitment and serious street violence.
