The New York City Police Department has named three people in connection with the incident A series of death investigations Men in gay bars in New York City.
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in locating the three men, identified as Jayquan Hamilton, 35, Robert DeMaio, 34, and Jacob Barroso, 30. All three have New York City addresses, police said.
The three men were allegedly involved in three murders in what is being treated as a “city-wide robbery pattern.” A total of 17 incidents occurred between September 2021 and August 2022 that “are being investigated as part of this pattern at this time,” the NYPD told CBS News on Saturday.
Julio Cesar Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33, were robbed and drugged — five weeks apart — after leaving a gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen, CBS News reported. Both were Seen leaving the bar with multiple strangers; Ramirez Left with three men and Umberger Left with two men Their families told CBS New York.
It is unclear how the three men being sought were connected to the investigation into the men’s deaths. March 30, CBS News has heavily redacted the documents that are alleged At least five others are connected to the deaths of Ramirez and Umberger. The exact number of people accused due to the amendment was unclear. In total, 19 counts were handed down, but it’s unclear what many of the charges were and who was charged as that information was sealed.
The document names one man, Shane Hoskins, who was not among those named by the NYPD on Saturday. Hoskins was facing multiple counts including robbery, conspiracy, grand larceny and identity theft. Court documents allege that Hoskins was part of a conspiracy to lure intoxicated people out of nightclubs, engage them in conversation and then administer incapacitating drugs to “impair their ability to comprehend events” and take away their “phones and credit cards.” can “or other property.
Hoskins would then use credit card information stored on victims’ cell phones to make unauthorized money transfers and purchases. The proceeds will then be shared with the co-conspirators.
Hoskins is next scheduled to appear in court on June 8. He is being held in jail on $50,000 bail and $100,000 bond.
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