'Roofie robber:' 2 killed dggg attacks on gay men

Contents:

• IS THERE A GROWG RISK OF BEG ‘ROOFIED’ AT A GAY BAR?
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• SIX GANG MEMBERS WHO PREYED ON MEN AT NYC GAY CLUBS DICTED FOR DGGG, MURRG 2
• IS THERE A GAY ROOFIE DATE RAPE EPIMIC?
• ‘ROOFIE ROBBER’ SPREE TURNS ADLY AS 2 KILLED NYC DGGG ATTACKS ON GAY MEN
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• NYC: SIX GANG MEMBERS INDICTED THE “ROOFIE” MURRS OF NYC GAY MEN
• NYC: SIX GANG MEMBERS INDICTED THE “ROOFIE” MURRS OF NYC GAY MEN
• IS THERE A GAY ROOFIE DATE RAPE EPIMIC?

IS THERE A GROWG RISK OF BEG ‘ROOFIED’ AT A GAY BAR?

The first time was at a popular gay bar Baltimore.

But such actns have been lked to sexual asslts and robberi other ci, and advot and some Baltimore-area patrons say the problem is Pri Center of Maryland has been trackg dggg reports at gay bars for the past year. The group said that based on 1, 200 surveys, 11% of rponnts have reported beg dgged gay center’s director, Cleo Manago, lls this “an epimic wag to happen.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

”Natnally, drk-spikg at gay bars has ma news wh a strg of high-profile New York Cy, a slew of aths that were once treated as isolated dg overdos by LGBTQ members are now beg vtigated by the Police Department’s homici un for a nnectn to dggg attacks and robberi. Distributn of the ks followed reports om dividuals feelg they may have been dgged at entertament venu Wt Hollywood — cludg the famed gay bar The Up for AlertsGet notified of need-to-know om The BannerVerna Sever, the LGBTQ+ liaison officer for the Baltimore Police Department, directed qutns to the agency’s public rmatn office.

SIX GANG MEMBERS WHO PREYED ON MEN AT NYC GAY CLUBS DICTED FOR DGGG, MURRG 2

Ldsey Eldridge, a spokwoman for the Baltimore Cy Police Department, said the agency has not received any reports and do not have any statistics or plats about cints of dggg at gay bars. Complitg the discsn is the fact that many of the dgs ed to spike drks, like GHB and ketame, are also recreatnal dgs nsumed by gay partygoers.

Some may fear prosecutn associated wh dg “are apprehensive to report , or they didn’t want people to know that they had anythg [of value] to steal, ” he said, which uld make them future often the crime is occurrg is subject to Baltimore-area gay bars and clubs, where there is often an expectatn that bartenrs will make strong drks (lled the “gay pour”), some bar owners and managers say that patrons unfaiar wh the heavy-hand serve will get more toxited than ual and attribute to beg Gay, owner of The Manor, the tablishment where Huffman is employed, said that while he believ that patrons are roofied at gay bars, he also spects that other factors are at play some s.

”Gay, who has lived Miami and Fort Lrdale, Florida and said he has never been roofied, add that he would like to see bars obtag tt strip ks siar to those beg distributed Los Leon’s, which claims to be one of the natn’s olst ntually operated gay bars, staff members there were also skeptil of the claims of wispread dgggs Wallace, general manager at Leon’s, spects that a batn of alhol and marijuana e n rult someone feelg like they have been dgged. He don’t thk ’s prevalent gay bars.

IS THERE A GAY ROOFIE DATE RAPE EPIMIC?

And most recently, he was dgged seven months ago a gay bar Baltimore.

‘ROOFIE ROBBER’ SPREE TURNS ADLY AS 2 KILLED NYC DGGG ATTACKS ON GAY MEN

(Kal Newman for The Baltimore Banner)Kaya Visn, 28, believ he was roofied early December while out at a gay bar.

“That’s sry to me, ” Visn 30-somethg gay bar patron who cled to be intified said that the possibily of gettg dgged is terrifyg. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr. Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars. Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years.

NYC: SIX GANG MEMBERS INDICTED THE “ROOFIE” MURRS OF NYC GAY MEN

Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020. Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December.

NYC: SIX GANG MEMBERS INDICTED THE “ROOFIE” MURRS OF NYC GAY MEN

ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L. Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife. People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia.

Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge.

IS THERE A GAY ROOFIE DATE RAPE EPIMIC?

"They target their victims leavg bars, offerg dgs some s, then eher through force or when the victim pass out, they remove jewelry, money, high-end watch and phon om their victims, " Jam Essig, NYPD chief of tectiv, said at a prs briefg announcg the was officially charged wh two unts of send-gree murr, three unts of first-gree robbery, two unts of third-gree crimal posssn of a ntrolled substance, two unts of send-gree robbery, and two unts of send-gree unsolved murrs of two gay men spected of fallg prey to the same crew ma headl last month when the mother of one of the victims, Lda Clary, acced Manhattan district attorney Alv Bragg of draggg his feet brgg the murrers of her son, John Umberger, to jtice. Word needs to get out, pecially the gay muny, that they are targetg gay men, " Clary told the NY Post last month, later addg, "This same group of killers have dgged, robbed, and murred untls young gay men New York. C., was dgged, robbed, and killed after a night visg gay bars Hell's Kchen on May 28.