{"id":1526289,"date":"2026-07-20T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=7fe2525c19d89570fd5847fde09e0584"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:20:01","slug":"purported-gang-members-charged-in-social-media-influencers-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1526289","title":{"rendered":"Purported gang members charged in social media influencer&#8217;s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/7c1a9f7d312ab29dba9c0e7d05a91294.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Stock image of police tape. (Ajax9\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(NEW YORK) -- A dozen purported members of the Bad Boys 7, a set of the Trinitarios, were indicted Monday on racketeering conspiracy charges that accused them of five murders, including the carjacking death last August of Ariela La Langosta, a nightlife influencer with more than half a million followers on Instagram.<\/p><p>She was shot multiple times and found dead in her car on the Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon.<\/p><p>La Langosta, 33, whose real name was Ariela Mejia-Polanco, was a mother of two.<\/p><p>Her family said she left her job at Ikon New York around 4:30 that Sunday morning. The Westchester County Police Department said she was found deceased a few hours later, about 8 a.m., behind the wheel of her car on the eastbound Cross County Parkway near the Broad Street exit in Mount Vernon.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock image of police tape. (Ajax9\/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) &#8212; A dozen purported members of the Bad Boys 7, a set of the Trinitarios, were indicted Monday on racketeering conspiracy charges that accused them of five murders, including the carjacking dea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7705,"featured_media":1526290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-20\/G_RF_policetape_071426%20%281%29.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-22 10:19:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-20\/G_RF_policetape_071426%20%281%29.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526294,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526289\/revisions\/1526294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}