New York ( CNN ) -- The ninth and 10th suspects arrested in a series of anti-gay beatings in New York were arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court Tuesday evening . Jose Dominguez , 22 , who was arrested early Tuesday morning , was charged with sexual abuse , gang assault in the first and second degree , unlawful imprisonment , criminal possession of a weapon , hate crime , and harassment , according to the complaint filed in court . Ruddy Vargas-Perez , 22 , was charged with 10 charges including four counts of robbery , gang assault in the second degree , unlawful imprisonment , criminal possession of a weapon , hate crime , and harassment , according to the complaint . His bail was set at $ 25,000 . Despite the complaint stating the 10 charges brought against Vargas-Perez , his attorney , Benjamin Heinrich , maintains his client is only charged with robbery . `` He had nothing to do with any of that horrific conduct and he was as mortified as we all are by what happened to that poor man , '' Heinrich said . `` And we see that he has n't been charged with that . '' The courtroom was packed with Vargas-Perez ' family and friends who gathered outside after the arraignment holding signs with his picture and chanting , `` Ruddy . '' `` We said it once and we 'll say it again , that my brother was innocent through all this time and he was not guilty . And we deserve an apology from the government , '' said his brother , Raul Sweeney . Vargas-Perez was taken into custody late Monday afternoon , the New York Police Department said . Heinrich told reporters his client was `` absolutely not '' involved in the October 3 attacks . Of the other eight suspects in the attacks , six have been ordered held without bail and bail for two others has been set at $ 100,000 . The case involved three victims being held against their will by as many as 10 assailants who beat them in a vacant apartment and sodomized two of them , New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday . A fourth victim was beaten and robbed in connection with the attacks , which New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg described as `` torture . '' `` I was sickened by the brutal nature of these crimes and saddened at the anti-gay bias that contributed to them , '' Bloomberg said Saturday . `` Hate crimes such as these strike fear into all of us . '' The string of attacks began when members of a street gang calling themselves the Latin King Goonies learned that an aspiring member is gay , authorities said . According to Kelly , the 17-year-old pledge was forced into an unoccupied apartment around 3:30 a.m. Sunday and questioned about his contact with a 30-year-old man . He was thrown into a wall , forced to strip naked , hit in the head with a beer can , cut with a box cutter and sodomized with the wooden handle of a plunger , the commissioner said . His assailants let him go , but threatened to hurt him or his family if he talked , Kelly said . The victim went to a hospital for treatment , but claimed his injuries were from an attack by unknown assailants on the street , the commissioner said . The same day , another 17-year-old was beaten and questioned about the same 30-year-old man , robbed of jewelry and held against his will in the same vacant apartment , Kelly said . About an hour after that , the 30-year-old man was lured to the location where the second 17-year-old was being held , was forced to strip naked and was tied to a chair opposite the teenager , Kelly said . The teenager was forced to hit the older male several times in the face and burn him with cigarettes , after which the suspects assaulted him with their fists and a chain and sodomized him with a small baseball bat , the commissioner said . The 30-year-old man was later dumped outside his home , he added . Five of the suspects then went to the apartment the 30-year-old victim shared with his older brother and let themselves in using a key they 'd taken from the man , Kelly explained . They beat the man 's brother and demanded money from him . When he refused , the assailants put a cell phone to his ear and he heard his younger brother say that he was being held against his will and to `` give them the money , '' the commissioner said . The older brother told the suspects where they could find the money , after which they tied him up and left the apartment , Kelly added . All ten of the suspects live in the Bronx , police said . The hate crimes task force took over the investigation , Kelly said , and coordinated with the Bronx Gang Division and Bronx Special Victims Squad to help identify and capture the suspects . Pending charges against them include unlawful imprisonment , abduction , sodomy , assault , robbery , and menacing , all as hate crimes , the commissioner said . The crimes and arrests have attracted national attention . `` It is tragic to see what hate can do , '' Joe Solmonese , president of the Human Rights Campaign , a national gay rights group , said Saturday . `` These three men were brutally attacked ... simply for who they are . '' CNN 's Elise Zeiger , Christina Romano , Susan Candiotti and Julie Cannold contributed to this report .
The 10th and Eight suspects are arraigned . Heinrich lawyer says his client is only charged with robbery . 10 other suspects were arraigned The same day . The suspects face charges of abduction , sodomy assault and robbery .