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A jury found a Long Island woman guilty Monday of luring four young men to their slaughter by more than a dozen members of the notorious MS-13 street gang. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A jury found Leniz Escobar guilty of assisting in the 2017 murders of four young men.

A jury found a Long Island woman guilty Monday of luring four young men to their slaughter by more than a dozen members of the notorious MS-13 street gang. Prosecutors claimed Leniz Escobar helped orchestrate the 2017 massacre as a teenage associate of the gang before falsely claiming to be a victim in the ambush. Recorded phone conversations were used…

Prosecutors shared the details of how MS-13 gang members led friends into the woods and killed four of them. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng shares details of the lone survivor’s testimony.

A federal jury will hear opening statements next week in the trial of a Long Island woman accused of luring four young men to their slaughter by more than a dozen members of the MS-13 street gang

A member of the notorious MS-13 street gang has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for a 2016 fatal stabbing on Long Island

Four men in their 20s have been indicted on murder and other charges in the “ruthless” beating death of a 31-year-old New York City woman whose body was found in the trunk of a car during an NYPD traffic stop three days after she was killed, prosecutors in Queens said Wednesday. Nazareth Claure was killed with a machete and a…

Three men in their 20s face murder charges and a fourth is accused of evidence tampering in the mysterious death of a woman they were allegedly found carrying in a blanket from a Queens home in the middle of the night this week, NYPD officials said Thursday. The NYPD said officers saw the four men toting a large object as…

Four men were in custody after the shocking discovery, and police even brought one of those men back to the scene hours later, while still in custody. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

The driver who fatally ran over the anti-gang activist, Evelyn Rodríguez, mother of Kayla Cuevas, one of the teenagers who was allegedly killed by members of the MS-13 gang, was sentenced to nine months in jail Thursday. Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini announced that Patchogue’s Annmarie Drago, 60, was sentenced for killing 50-year-old Rodríguez of Brentwood in 2018....

Prosecutors in New York say they will seek the death penalty against a mid-level leader of the notorious MS-13 street gang accused in a string of brutal slayings. According to a new federal court filing, the Justice Department has given authorization to bring a capital punishment case against Jairo Saenz. There was no immediate response on Saturday to a message…

One of the MS-13 gang members allegedly responsible for the gruesome murder of a 15-year-old Long Island boy was extradited from El Salvador to U.S. four years after the killing, prosecutors said Friday. Eduardo Portillo, 23, formerly of Central Islip and Brentwood, fled the country and was charged with the teen’s murder after a federal grand jury indictment was...

The remains are believed to have been victims of MS-13 gang, according to police.

The federal government will seek the death penalty against the alleged leader of an MS-13 gang chapter indicted three years ago on charges of murder and other crimes in connection with the gruesome slayings of seven people, including two teenage best friends, in Long Island’s crime-plagued town of Brentwood, officials said Wednesday. Alexi Saenz was one of five people...

A former leader of the violent MS-13 gang faces murder charges for the death of a rival gang member back in 2012, federal prosecutors announced Friday. An unsealed indictment charges Marcelo Esquivel, 31, with murder in-aid-of racketeering and causing death through the use of a firearm. He was arrested Thursday and was scheduled scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon. Esquivel…

Ten members and associates of the violent MS-13 gang have been charged with federal murder and racketeering charges in connection with three murders in Queens occurring in 2018 and 2019, law enforcement sources say. Six gang members were arrested by FBI and U.S. Homeland Security agents while four others were already in custody, the sources said. The charges announced today…

A homeless man found beaten to death behind a house had been attacked before and was planning to testify against members of the MS-13 gang at a trial

A man prosecutors say was attacked by MS-13 gang members was targeted again, and it is believed they killed him the second time. The victim was about to testify against them in the 2018 case, Authorities initially suggested bail reform may be at fault, before later clarifying that there was no link with the murder. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol...

Authorities announced charges against nearly 100 of the group’s members and associates on Long Island. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Authorities said Friday they have dealt an unprecedented blow to the violent MS-13 street gang, announcing charges against nearly 100 of the group’s members and associates on Long Island in the largest takedown of alleged MS-13 members in New York history.