Trinitarios

Trinitarios
Founded1993 (1993)
FoundersLeonides Sierra and Julio Marine
Founding locationRikers Island, New York City, US
Years active1993–present
Territory
EthnicityPredominantly Dominican American
Membership (est.)Over 3,000 in the Eastern area of the United States
ActivitiesDrug trafficking, assault, murder, robbery, extortion
RivalsCrips
Dominicans Don't Play
Tiny Rascal Gang

The Trinitarios is a Dominican American criminal organization founded by Dominicans in New York City in 1993. They were described by the US Justice Department in 2009 as lower-level distributors and one of "the smaller Dominican criminal groups and street gangs", although larger and more structured than the "hundreds of small, unaffiliated neighborhood gangs" in the New York - New Jersey HIDTA.