They accuse of several crimes made up of gangs made up of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans

They are charged with possession of firearms to promote a drug-trafficking conspiracy

NEW YORK._ Ten members of the violent drug gang "Trinidad", made up of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans and operating in the city of Reading in Pennsylvania, with a large Dominican population, were charged this week in the federal court of Philadelphia of six murders against rivals for control of territories, kidnappings, weapons, drug trafficking and conspiracy.

Prosecutors sedide 29-year-old Jesus Feliciano Trinidad (Chewy) as the main leader of the criminal group.

Members of the narco banda used violence, kidnappings and six attempted murders in less than two months to control and expand the territory where they sold heroin, fentanyl and other controlled dangerous substances, the prosecutor said in a statement Eastern District William McSwain.

The narcos are also charged with possession of firearms to promote a conspiracy of drug trafficking, kidnappings and multiple other drug distribution charges.

Six members of the group were previously charged in March with drug and gun charges. The new charges allege that the group members committed numerous kidnappings and used the violence, including a quadruple homicide in January 2018, to control people involved in drug trafficking in Reading.

Current defendants now face some of the most serious and violent charges under federal law," Prosecutor McSwain said at a press conference with Berks County District Attorney John Adams and local law enforcement officers federals.

"In its way of being, this organization created chaos in the city of Reading," said Adams, who previously called the Trinidad group the most violent drug organization that the drug authorities had faced.

According to the record, the members of the group committed the murders and kidnappings in 2017 and 2018.

In addition to Feliciano Trinidad, the other defendants for the murders are Yomar Velázquez Figueroa, Fitzgerald Daliot Rios, Dewayne Quiñones, Pedro Sánchez Laporte, Angel Rivera Silva and Mayco Alvarez Jackson.

They face possible execution sentences if they are convicted.

Mariela Alvarado and Owen Malavé Medina are charged with multiple drug and weapons offenses and face life sentences if convicted.

Lilian García Ortiz, she's also accused of drug trafficking.

Feliciano Trinidad, Velázquez Figueroa and Daliot Ríos are accused of murdering Miguel Reyes in December 2017, who was a rival in the control of the territories.

According to the indictment, the same three men, along with a now-dead person and an unidentified person who is separately charged, also kidnapped Hector González Rivera because he failed to commission a rival drug dealer of Feliciano Trinidad and not returned the weapon provided to him by the leader of the narco band.

Gonzalez Rivera was abducted in the basement of a house in Reading. There, Feliciano Trinidad and Alvarez Jackson beat him with their fists and a piece of wood.

He was not given food or water for several days until Feliciano Trinidad ordered Velázquez Figueroa and Daliot Rios to kill him by injecting him with a lethal drug overdose.

When the drug overdose didn't kill Gonzalez Rivera, they forced him into an alley and shot him in the head, prosecutors said.

It is alleged that Feliciano Trinidad, Velázquez Figueroa, Quiñones and Sánchez Laporte killed Jarlyn Lantigua Tejada, Juan Rodríguez, Nelson Onofre and Joshua Santos on January 28, 2018, to expand the territory of their drug trafficking operations.

Other acts of violence in the indictment include firing multiple shots at a house used by a rival drug dealer and kidnapping a man to force him to pay his drug debts.