THESE DUDES ARE CRAZY! THEY LURED THEIR VICTIM WITH THE PROMISE OF A FOUR LOKO PARTY & HE SHOWED UP WITH A 10 PACK THEY MADE HIM GUZZLE 4 CANS BEFORE THEY RAPED HIM WITH A PLUNGER!

Fueled by hate for homosexuals, a sick crew of Bronx gang members went on a wave of sadistic violence that included forcing a teen to burn his gay lover with cigarettes, cops said Friday.
The cowardly creeps then made the 17-year-old watch as they sodomized the tortured man with a miniature baseball bat.

The gang members, who call themselves the Latin King Goonies, also sodomized another 17-year-old with a toilet plunger before capping their reign of terror by beating up and robbing a fourth person. The last man attacked was the older brother of one of the earlier victims.

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

Seven hoods, ages from 16 to 23, have been rounded up. Cops are looking for at least two other members of the cruel crew, Kelly said.

Their leader was identified by sources as 23-year-old Ildefonso (Cheto) Mendez. They're charged with unlawful imprisonment, abduction, assault, robbery, menacing and sodomy - all as hate crimes.

The suspects, including one who was taken out of the 41st Precinct stationhouse on a stretcher and transported to a hospital because of a seizure, were waiting to be arraigned last night.

They were still passing blame to one another last night, said a law enforcement source.

"Nobody wants to take responsibility for the plunger," the source said. "One guy is lying through his teeth."

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

The arrests came just days after two young men were busted for attacking a gay man in the bathroom of the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay rights movement.

And with gay-bashing on the uptick - 44 attacks as of Monday compared with 41 at the same time last year - city leaders reacted with outrage.

"These attacks are appalling and are even more despicable because the victims were clearly targeted in acts of hate simply because they are gay," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said.

"Bronxites will not tolerate any form of bigotry in our borough," Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said.

The torture took place in an abandoned Morris Heights building across the street from a public school. Area residents called it the Goonie House. Gang members threw parties and had sex there. As many as a dozen pit bulls guarded the place.

"They'd have meets there every Friday," said a 33-year-old woman too terrified to reveal her name. "They're running crazy from there - hurting people, taking stuff. Latin Kings don't let gay people in their nation."

Kelly said the gang members didn't appear to be real Latin Kings.

The depraved violence was touched off by rumors that a 30-year-old Bronx man was having sex with the teenagers, police said. One of the 17-year-olds, who had been subjected to a beating a week earlier as part of a gang initiation, was cornered at 3:30 a.m. Sunday and dragged to the Osborne Place building.

There the Goonies stripped him, hit him with a beer can and cut him with box-cutters until he gave them the name of the 30-year-old man, police said.

Then the gang members sodomized the teen with the wooden handle of a toilet plunger, police said. Two hours later the violated teen turned up at a Bronx hospital and told disbelieving doctors he'd been mugged. They called cops, who 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 their torture chamber where they stripped him, stole his jewelry and beat him.

An hour later, they lured his 30-year-old lover there by telling him they were having a party.

The unsuspecting man 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 him with a small baseball bat, police said.

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

The savagery was too much for one witness, who bolted after encountering "a gang guy with blue medical gloves on with blood on them," said a woman who knows the man.

"When he went inside, he saw two young guys tied to chairs, blindfolded, facing each other."

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

There, they roused his 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 complied, and the Goonies fled with $1,000 cash, his debit cards and 52-inch TV.

They left him bound and gagged. He was able to free himself hours later about 1:30 a.m. Monday and went to his neighbor for help.

"He had his hands tied behind his back and his face was covered with tape," said the neighbor, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. "I cut him free."

"He was crying and sweating," the neighbor's daughter said. "I was really scared - I didn't know what to say."

The family called 911, but the victim told cops only that he'd been robbed.

He didn't mention 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.

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

On Tuesday, detectives tracked down his 17-year-old lover and the entire terrible tale came out.

When cops arrived on Osborne Place, they discovered the apartment had been scrubbed clean with bleach and repainted.

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

In the crowd of onlookers was a tipster who eventually led cops to Mendez, the reputed Goonies ringleader.

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

Sources identified the other suspects in custody as Nelson Falu, 18; Steven Carballo, 17; David Rivera, 21; Brian Cepeda, 16; Bryan Almonte, 17; and Denis Peitars, 17. Cops are still hunting for Elmer Confessor, 23, and Ruddy Vargas-Perez, 22.