{"id":62855,"date":"2025-12-06T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:25:15","slug":"gang-leader-from-brooklyn-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-gun-violence-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62855\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang leader from Brooklyn gets 15 years in prison for gun violence, drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gang leader from Brooklyn was sentenced to prison for plaguing Upper Manhattan with gun violence and drug trafficking, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office says 29-year-old Hugo Rodriguez served as the head of the \u201cOwn Every Dollar\u201d gang based in Washington Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution in the case involved the convictions of 22 members for five murders, over 10 attempted murders, multiple robberies and an extensive drug operation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Rodriguez will spend 15 years behind bars, though he has already served several years in prison for other crimes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gang leader from Brooklyn was sentenced to prison for plaguing Upper Manhattan with gun violence and drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,33266,6809,12991,9,24,63,33267,3209],"class_list":["post-62855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-gang-sentencing","tag-gangs","tag-gun-and-drugs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prison-sentencing","tag-sentencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}