(Washington Insider Magazine) – A member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang was found guilty in connection with the machete death of a teenager who was offered sex and drugs in a Long Island (NY) forest.
Carlos Portillo, a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, was found guilty in connection with the hacking to death of a teenager in Massapequa Preserve, Long Island (NY).
According to The Nassau County District Attorney
According to the Nassau County district attorney, Portillo was one of several men who hacked to death Julio César Gonzales Espantzay, whose body was found in March 2017, two months after he was reported missing.
The victim was lured into his death after a woman working with MS-13 promised him drugs and sex, according to police. Other men and a woman are already serving sentences for the death of Gonzales Espantzay. Portillo will be sentenced on March 7, News 12 reported.
Long Island and Queens are two of the areas with the largest Mara Salvatrucha presence in the US, where dozens of murders and disappearances are attributed to it. The Central American origin group is associated with recruiting young men and women, mostly of Latino origin.
This week Carlos Guerra pleaded guilty to killing two men in New York to rise through the ranks in the MS-13 gang. In August José Jonathan Guevara Castro was extradited from El Salvador to New York as a suspect in the brutal murder of a member of a rival gang on Long Island, federal prosecutors announced.
In July Eduardo Portillo, another MS-13 gang member extradited from El Salvador to New York, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a federal judge after pleading guilty to helping kill a 15-year-old rival with a machete after luring him into a secluded park on Long Island.
In May Erasmo Humberto Lima Martínez, alias “Tun Tun”, also a member of the dangerous gang Mara Salvatrucha committed suicide in a federal prison in Brooklyn (NYC).
Earlier in April, young Leniz Escobar, who called herself “La Diablita,” was found guilty in connection with brutal slayings by the Mara Salvatrucha gang in New York.
This article is authored by El-Diario.