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Two more parents have come forward to warn New Yorkers about
organized crime gangs who are drugging and robbing young men at
gay bars in Hell’s Kitchen and are suspected of murdering at
least two victims.
The NYPD has formed a grand larceny task force to investigate at
least a dozen similar non-fatal cases in which well-dressed
victims were targeted by three men at gay bars, drugged, and
robbed of tens of thousands of dollars, after their bank
accounts were emptied and credit cards maxed out.
The homicide squad separately is investigating at least two
associated murders.
The medical examiner also is examining deaths previously thought
to be drug overdoses to see if there are toxicological links to
the gangs.
While most of the venues targeted are gay bars, at least one
victim was approached at an Irish pub in Greenwich Village.
Linda Clary, the courageous mother of homicide victim John
Umberger, 33, spoke out last week to warn other young New
Yorkers about the menace lurking on their nights out.
Her son, a Washington, DC, political consultant, was drugged and
robbed by three unidentified men believed to have targeted him
at Eighth Avenue gay nightclub The Q NYC on May 28.
When Umberger’s body was found on June 1 in an Upper East Side
apartment where he was staying, his cellphone was missing, and
more than $25,000 had been transferred out of his accounts
through cash apps such as Venmo and PayPal.
“This same group of killers have drugged, robbed and murdered
countless young gay men in New York,” Clary told The Post.
Five weeks earlier, in near identical circumstances, Brooklyn
social worker Julio Ramirez, 25, was found dead in the back of a
taxi on the Lower East Side, an hour after he was seen in the
company of three unidentified men leaving a gay club on West
46th Street, two blocks from The Q NYC, around 3:17 a.m.
Thursdayon April 21. His phone and credit cards were missing and
about $20,000 was stolen from his bank accounts and credit cards.
Preliminary toxicology reports show both Umberger and Ramirez
died of drug overdoses, but evidence suggests they had been
“roofied,” the colloquial term for someone spiking their drinks
with date-rape drugs, sources say. Umberger’s toxicology tests
found cocaine, lidocaine, and fentanyl in his system. Lidocaine
is an anesthetic which causes confusion and drowsiness, and
fentanyl is a deadly potent synthetic opioid responsible for the
current US epidemic of drug deaths.
After reading our story about Umberger and Ramirez, the father
of an NYU student told The Post on Thursday that his 21-year-old
son also was victimized at The Q NYC bar where Umberger was last
seen.
His son, a film student who wants to remain anonymous, has told
police that he was befriended by three men at the Eighth Avenue
bar between 2:42 a.m. and closing time on April 8. He then
invited them back to his apartment in the West Village for beers
with a female friend of his.
He believes he and his friend were drugged soon after arriving
home. When they regained consciousness late the next morning,
his phone had been stolen and both their wallets were missing.
His accounts had been emptied using phone apps, Apple Cash,
Venmo and PayPal, his credit cards had been used on liquor and
shoes in Brooklyn and at a department store in Manhattan. The
criminals also managed to start a credit card application with
Goldman Sachs on his phone. His laptop and other personal items
were stolen from his apartment. The losses added up to about
$15,000.
The father said the three perpetrators “are able to gain
people’s trust and confidence. They are like con men . . .”
“They’ve been preying on the gay community, and they pretend to
be gay themselves. They see a young person like my son, and they
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