Brothers, Bloods Gang Members With Coram Ties, Plead Guilty To Sex Trafficking: Feds

CENTRAL, ISLIP, NY — Two brothers, who are Bloods street gang members and have connections to Coram, in connection with their roles for engaging in acts of violence against multiple female victims, and providing drugs to them, including fentanyl to cause them to take part in commercial sex acts for financial benefit, the U.S. Attorney's office said Tuesday.

David Amin, 31, who has had addresses in Coram, Freeport, and Wyandanch, and Bryce Amin, 25, of Coram, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking conspiracy and substantive sex trafficking, and face a mandatory minimum term of 15 years' up to life imprisonment, according to prosecutors.

In April 2025, the brothers' co-defendant, 31-year-old Patricia Peralta, who is David Amin’s spouse and has had addresses in Freeport and Wyandanch, pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy, prosecutors said, adding, that she helped the pair launder the proceeds of the "lucrative business," from which she reaped "substantial financial benefits."

Peralta faces up to 20 years in prison.

David Amin's attorney, Murray Singer of Port Washington, declined comment.

Attorney information for Bryce Amin was not immediately available.

Patch has reached out to her attorney, Sally Butler of Bayside.

David Amin and Peralta also agreed to forfeit more than $390,000, a 2021 Mercedes-Benz AMG SUV, and a 2021 BMW M550i, all of which were seized from a storage facility in Suffolk County on the date of his arrest.

The pleas were announced at a news conference, including federal and local law enforcement officials.

United States Attorney Joseph Nocella said the brothers "took advantage of vulnerable women battling addiction to coerce them into prostitution by making them beholden to illegal narcotics."

“These guilty pleas hold the defendants accountable for profiting from the sexual exploitation of others while subjecting their victims to harm and degradation," he said. "It is my hope that these prosecutions will also serve to vindicate the civil rights and dignity of survivors of this evil scourge.”

Nocella also credited the Nassau County Police Department for help on the case.

Homeland Security Investigations - New York Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Alfonso said the pleas "send a clear message" that "HSI will relentlessly pursue those who traffic and exploit vulnerable individuals and expose them to deadly fentanyl."

“HSI New York is laser-focused on rooting out sex traffickers and dismantling criminal networks that threaten our families," he added. "Working alongside our law enforcement partners, HSI New York special agents will utilize every tool at our disposal to ensure predators like the Amin brothers face the full consequences of their actions.”

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said the brothers preyed on "vulnerable" people by using "drugs and manipulation to exploit them for profit."

"Their guilty pleas are a significant step toward justice for their victims," he said. "The Suffolk County Sheriff’s office remains committed to working alongside our law enforcement partners to protect our communities from the devastating impact of human trafficking."

Between October 2018 and May 2023, the defendants "conspired to use violence and threats of violence to compel multiple women to engage in commercial sex acts for the defendants’ financial benefit," prosecutors said.

David Amin, who used aliases such as “Sonny B,” “Rico,” “Tone,” and “Anthony,” and “Jonathan Santos," and his brother, Bryce Amin, who went by "Busy B," recruited drug addicted women for their sex trafficking operation on Long Island, and controlled the proceeds derived from the scheme, according to prosecutors.

They also manipulated their victims into believing they were in debt to the defendants, prosecutors said.

David Amin forced victims to have sex with him, which at times came with degrading rules the victims were forced to follow, and included his choking and striking victims, prosecutors said, adding that he left one or more of them stranded in public places without money, a phone, or identification, and deprived them of drugs to force withdrawal symptoms.

Bryce Amin subjected the victims "to violence and drug-related manipulation," according to prosecutors. In a recorded call from jail in January 2021, he boasted about his control over one of them, saying, “You can groom a person to do something they’re not used to doing . . . When I tell her sit, she listens, she does whatever I tell her to do. She’s my little puppet," according to prosecutors.

David Amin also operated "a significant drug trafficking operation" on Long Island, where he sold large quantities of controlled substances, including cocaine and fentanyl, and then, as part of their sex trafficking, the brothers often sold drugs through their victims to people who were also paying them for commercial sex acts, prosecutors said.

The add-on services were advertised as “party favors," prosecutors said.

The sex trafficking took place at hotels on Long Island, in locations that include Bohemia, Islandia, Patchogue, and Bayport, and the now-shuttered Sayville Motor Lodge, prosecutors said, adding that David Amin forced victims to work out of cars and apartments in Suffolk.

When D. Amin was arrested, law enforcement searched a storage unit he controlled with Peralta and seized more than $390,000 in cash along with two luxury vehicles, each worth around $100,000, according to prosecutors.

Peralta regularly deposited large sums of money derived from sex trafficking and narcotics trafficking into personal bank accounts, and those funds were used to purchase a third luxury vehicle and to pay for hotels used in the sex trafficking operation, prosecutors said.

This prosecution is also part of the Homeland Security Task Force initiative established by an Executive Order to protect against invasion.

The task force is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Through historic interagency collaboration, the task force directs the full might of U.S. law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders, the office said.

The task force places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children, and uses all tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the U.S., according to the office.