MS-13 killer gets 40 years

An MS-13 gang member was sentenced to 40 years behind bars Thursday for the grisly 2012 murders of two men on Long Island.

Melvin Marquez-Sanchez, 22, slaughtered fellow MS-13 member Douglas Martinez and suspected rival José Vallejo in Brentwood and Hempstead before fleeing to Maryland and conspiring to whack someone else, authorities said.

Martinez was executed in August 2012 after violating rules of the gang by not “putting in the work” and possibly cooperating with law enforcement, according to officials. He was shot at point-blank range.

Weeks later, MarquezSanchez and others lured Vallejo to a park under the premise of buying marijuana — but instead shot him and sliced up his face and throat with a machete.

The Freeport man then high-tailed it to Maryland, where he plotted to kill someone he believed to be a member of the competing 18th Street gang.

Marchez-Sanchez was arrested before he could take out the rival, later murdered by another MS-13 member.

“Today’s sentence will ensure that the public is protected from this defendant for decades to come,” Acting US Attorney Bridget Rohde said.

Nassau County DA Madeline Singas revealed last week that a recent uptick in murders attributed to the bloodthirsty Salvadoran gang was the result of orders from gang higher-ups to kill more New Yorkers.

The “New York Program” mandates “an increase [in] violence and bloodshed in New York,” Singas said following a 41-person indictment of purported MS-13 members believed responsible for some 32 violent acts across Long Island.