Grimy Times has learned that a Queens-based drug trafficking crew has been busted in a shocking case of heroin trafficking, kidnapping, and firearms offenses.
The indictment, unsealed earlier today, charges Gonzalo Erick Aguilar Vargas, also known as ‘Erick Aguilar’ and ‘Erick Vargas’, Hillary Calle, Kiancin Lee, also known as ‘Mala’, Monica Vargas, and Ricky Vargas with conspiring to traffic heroin, conspiring to kidnap, kidnapping, and possessing and brandishing firearms in relation to the charged heroin trafficking and kidnapping crimes.
The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.
As alleged in the indictment, on February 6, 2015, a member of the defendants’ drug trafficking crew was arrested while picking up a parcel containing heroin sent from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy International Airport into Queens, New York. The crew member was released from law enforcement custody later that day.
The following day, the defendants kidnapped the crew member and his female companion in Manhattan so that their leader, Gonzalo Erick Aguilar Vargas, could confront him regarding the lost parcel of heroin. Hillary Calle, Monica Vargas, and Ricky Vargas drove the two victims to New Jersey and then returned with them through Manhattan to Queens, where they waited for other crew members to arrive.
Kiancin Lee and another crew member subsequently arrived and ordered the kidnapped crew member into a vehicle. When he refused, Ricky Vargas, Kiancin Lee, and the other crew member viciously assaulted him using firearms. The victim crew member ultimately escaped and his female companion was later released.
‘As detailed in the indictment, the defendants were members of a drug trafficking organization that imported heroin from Ecuador through John F. Kennedy Airport and distributed it throughout the New York City area,’ stated United States Attorney Robert L. Capers. ‘The defendants allegedly kidnapped and viciously assaulted a member of their crew after he was arrested in another case in order to enforce their control over the crew’s activities.’
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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