Alleged Trinitarios Members Captured on Video Terrorizing Victims
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that four men and a 16-year-old boy have been indicted on first-degree Robbery, Conspiracy, Grand Larceny and other related charges for seven gunpoint robberies that netted them nearly $100,000 in jewelry.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendants—including a 16-year-old boy--allegedly put guns to victims’ heads or chests and stole their jewelry in a spree that lasted two weeks. They accosted people of various ages, in different areas of the Bronx, causing fear on our streets. We are fortunate that no one was shot, but these victims’ lives were threatened, and some are forever traumatized. No one should have to live that way. My crime victims advocates stand ready to assist them.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendants, Manuel Rivas, 20, of Newark, New Jersey, Wilfren Carbuccia, 20, Anthony Perez, 29, and John Doe, 16, all of the Bronx, and a fifth defendant who has not been apprehended, were indicted on first, second and third-degree Robbery, third and fourth-degree Grand Larceny and fourth-degree Conspiracy. Rivas is additionally charged with second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon, Possession of a Firearm, fourth-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon and Possession of Ammunition.
The 16-year-old defendant is also charged in a separate indictment for a robbery on September 27, 2025, in which a man was invited to a party at a Bronx apartment where he was held up for his watch and gold chain as the defendant allegedly held a pistol with an extended magazine to his chest.
The 16-year-old was arraigned on the pattern indictment on November 20, 2025 before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Gayle Roberts and bail was set at $100,000 cash, $500,000 bond and $500,000 partially secured bond at 10%. Carbuccia was arraigned on November 20, 2025 before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas and was remanded. Perez and Rivas are awaiting arraignment.
According to the investigation by Bronx DA’s Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau, Bronx Robbery Squad, Manhattan Robbery Squad, Officers of the 41, 46, and 52 Precincts, Manhattan North Homicide and Shooting Enhancement Team, and the FBI/NYPD Westchester Safe Streets Taskforce, the defendants—who are alleged members of the Trinitarios set BB7--allegedly committed seven armed robberies between September 20 and October 6, 2025 in the Bronx.
They allegedly wore masks and accosted victims who were wearing gold chains or expensive watches and rings, pointed multiple guns at them or held the firearms against them, and forcibly removed the jewelry. They joined up at two Bronx motels before the robberies and then afterwards, to inspect the proceeds.
The victims included an elderly man on a stoop in Kingsbridge who was so fearful he moved out of the area within two weeks of the incident; a business owner in Mott Haven whom they cut off with a moped; a man standing outside a nightclub in Fordham Heights, and people in vehicles whom they would drive up to and block them in with their getaway car.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detectives Giselle Batista and Eric Capowski, and Lieutenant Carlos Felipe of Bronx Robbery Squad, Police Officers Michael Rubeis of the 41st Precinct, Brandon Scott and Jorge Flores of the 46th Precinct, Joseph Giacoio of 52nd Precinct, and Russell Crawford of Manhattan Robbery Squad; Detective Alex Tegan of Bronx Transit, Detective Paul Pastorini of Manhattan North Homicide and Shooting Enhancement Team, and Detectives Jesus Capo and Joseph Spina and Sergeant Christopher McGrisken of the FBI/NYPD Westchester Safe Streets Taskforce for their work in the investigation.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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