STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Gang leader John Pena Jr. — aka “Don Tragg” and “Money Baggz” — was handed a life sentence Wednesday for two murders on Staten Island in 2021, federal prosecutors announced.
U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly imposed the sentence on Pena, who was the alleged leader of the Gorilla Stone Mafia on the borough’s North Shore. The gang was described as a set of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation, which has ties to the East Coast Bloods.
Pena, 34, of Stapleton, was convicted in 2024 in Brooklyn federal court on six counts that included racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering and drug conspiracy…