7 MEMBERS OF THE LATIN KINGS GOONIES GET ARRESTED FOR SODOMIZING & BRUTALLY BEATING 3 MEMBERS AFTER THEY FOUND OUT THEY WERE GAY!

A sick crew of Bronx gang members fueled by hatred of gays went on a wave of sadistic violence that culminated with them sodomizing a 17-year-old boy and an older man reputed to be his lover, police said Friday.
Another 17-year-old linked to the older man was forced by the brutal gangbangers to torture the man by beating his face and burning his body with cigarettes, police said.

The cowardly creeps, who called themselves the "Latin King Goonies," capped their brief reign of terror by beating and robbing the older man's brother.

"These suspects employed terrible, wolfpack odds of nine against one, odds which revealed them as predators whose crimes were as cowardly as they were despicable," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Seven suspects, ranging in age from 16 to 23, have been rounded up and cops are looking for at least two other members of the cruel crew, Kelly said.

They are charged with unlawful imprisonment, abduction, assault, robbery, menacing and sodomy - all as a hate crime.

"This was not part of an initiation," Kelly said. "This was a reaction to the fact that they had engaged in homosexual activity."

Rumors that a 30-year-old man was sleeping with two teenage boys set off the vicious violence by the gangbangers, who Kelly said are not affiliated with the "Latin Kings" gang.

One of the 17-year-olds, who had already been subjected to a beat down as part of his initiation, was cornered at 3:30 a.m. Sunday and dragged to an abandoned Osborne Place apartment that the Goonies used as a party pad.

There, they stripped the teenager naked, clocked him with a beer can, and cut him with box-cutters to make him give up the name of the 30-year-old man.

Then they sodomized him with the wooden handle of a toilet plunger, police said.

Before they let him go, the Goonies warned him not to tell the cops.

Two hours after he'd been violated, the teen turned up at a Bronx hospital and told disbelieving doctors he'd been jumped by strangers. He told cops the same story before they got the horrible truth out of him, Kelly said.

Later that Sunday, at 8:30 p.m., the Goonies grabbed the other 17-year-old and dragged him to the same Osborne Avenue apartment where they stripped him down to his underwear, stole his jewelry, and began beating him.

An hour later, the Goonies lured the 30-year-old to their torture chamber by telling him there was a party. The unsuspecting victim arrived with a 10-pack of "Four Loko," an energy drink laced with caffeine and liquor.

For four hours, the Goonies beat the 30-year-old with their fists and a chain before sodomizing with a small baseball bat, police said.

They also forced him to guzzle four cans of the "Four Loko."

While this torture was going on, five of the Goonies peeled off and went to the 30-year-old's apartment and let themselves in using his keys.

There, they surprised his sleeping older brother and covered his head with a blanket while they beat him and demanded money.

"When he refused, the assailants placed a cell phone to his ear," Kelly said. "He heard his younger brother tell him that he was being held against his will and to 'Give them the money.'"

The older brother showed the Goonies where he had stashed $1,000 cash. They took the money, his debit cards and a 52-inch TV and split after tying him up with rope and tape.

He was able to free himself at 1:30 a.m. Monday and called 911, but when cops arrived he told them only that he'd been robbed - and didn't say that his brother was in danger, Kelly said.

It wasn't until 4 a.m., when the 30-year-old was found unconscious on the landing of his building, that cops began to suspect the attacks were related.

But the sodomized man couldn't give police a clear account of what he'd gone through, possibly because of the drinks he was forced to drink, Kelly said.

On Tuesday, detectives tracked down the second 17-year-old but he too didn't give them the whole story, Kelly said. It wasn't until he was reinterviewed that the entire terrible tale came out and cops connected the three attacks.

When cops arrived at the apartment, they discovered it had been scrubbed top to bottom with bleach and painted over.

It was, in the words of one investigator, "the cleanest crime scene I've ever seen," Kelly said.

But in the crowd of onlookers there was tipster who passed the number of the alleged ringleader of the Goonies to a uniformed officer.

"They could clean but they couldn't hide," said Kelly.