← Return to Main Database Target Profile: Nine Trey Gangsters
Known Aliases: 9 Trey, NTG, Billys, Trey, Nine Trey Bloods, The 93.
Origin: Rikers Island (George Motchan Detention Center), New York City — 1993. Officially established as unquestionably the founding, premier, and most historically significant vanguard subset originating the United Blood Nation (UBN) via architects OG Mack (Omar Portee) and OG Deadeye (Leonard McKenzie).
Active Regions: Primary AOR: hegemony anchoring New York City (The Bronx commands large grids, Brooklyn's most violent sectors, Manhattan, Queens corridors), Northern New Jersey. Secondary AOR: Virginia (Hampton Roads region acts as a large deployment zone, Richmond), North Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Tremendous, sustained structural presence dominating NYCDOC and Federal BOP architectures. Membership conservatively estimated in the numerous thousands.
Known Alliances: The supreme architect and foundational anchor of the United Blood Nation (UBN). Ideologically tethers generically to the People Nation penal alliance.
Known Rivalries: Crips (all East Coast sets singularly) — representing historically violent street-level, kinetic opposition. Trinitarios — generating severe territorial conflict erupting continuously throughout the Bronx and upper Manhattan. Folk Nation sets (including the GDs), rival UBN sets (profound internal factional friction erupting frequently over UBN leadership sovereignty).
Primary Identifiers: Colors: Red (strict and exclusive). Symbols: '93', the moniker 'Billy', a distinct 'B', aggressive bulldog imagery, the 5-pointed star motif. Numeric codes: 031 (The overarching UBN structural identifier), 9-3. Tattoos: Vast '93', 'NTG', 'B', ritualistic dog paw branded burns (indicative of true lineage), the five-pointed star. Apparel: Bright red bandanas (the traditional 'flag'), exclusive Philadelphia Phillies apparel (P standing for Piru/Bloods affiliation), aggressive red sports gear arrays. Hand signs: Formulating the distinct 'B' formation, extending 9 and 3 fingers in sequences.
Affiliated Sets: Rikers Island/Bronx Headquarters. Brooklyn localized command nodes. Vast networks across Northern New Jersey municipalities.
Executive Summary:
The Nine Trey Gangsters (NTG) constitute the foundational and historically most primary, universally recognized vanguard subset of the United Blood Nation (UBN). Established within the extensive matrix of the New York City correctional system in 1993, NTG violently mutated from an insular prison protection coalition—designed to resist Latin King domination—into an vast, heavily decentralized street enterprise conducting operations primarily along the entire Eastern Seaboard. They operate fundamentally as the aristocratic spine of the New York Bloods framework.
The organization generates horrific illicit revenue through large wholesale narcotics trafficking grids (dominating the East Coast heroin, surging fentanyl crises, and structural crack cocaine markets), organized illegal weapons distribution mapping the 'Iron Pipeline', systemic armed robbery, violent localized extortion ('taxation'), and organized sex trafficking operations. NTG operates structurally through a sustained, rigid military hierarchy commanding 'Godfathers', 'Highs', 'Lows', and vast arrays of foot soldiers ('scraps'). The organization achieved major national and media visibility due fundamentally to its significant, symbiotic entanglement directly with the Brooklyn drill rap and large mainstream hip-hop industries. This high-profile cultural weaponization culminated in the catastrophic 2018-2019 federal SDNY RICO prosecutions (United States vs. Hernandez et al.). This major indictment—fueled by high-profile cooperating witnesses—secured the federal convictions of the primary NTG leadership node governing New York, exposing their usage of music industry mechanisms to publicly execute and fund drive-by shootings and multi-state drug networks. Despite sustaining this large federal decapitation interdiction, the organization maintains resilient, virtually indestructible street-level operations fueled by aggressive recruitment of youth demographics across urban environments.