‘Frenzy of violence’
Shocking new details of MS-13 slays on LI
More than a dozen MS-13 gang members — nearly half of them kids — engaged “in a horrific frenzy of violence’’ that left four young men dead in a Long Island park, the feds said Wednesday.
The victims, suspected of being members of a rival gang, were lured into the woods behind a municipal park in Central Islip and “brutally bludgeoned, sliced and stabbed to death,’’ authorities said.
Justin Llivicura, 16, Michael Lopez Banegas, 20, Jorge Tigre, 18, and Jefferson Villalobos, 18, were found dead in April. They were tricked into going to the area by two female MS-13 associates, officials said.
The victims were then surrounded and attacked by the gang with “machetes, knives and wooden clubs,” according to Long Island federal prosecutors.
Acting Brooklyn US Attorney Bridget Rohde revealed the gory details of the slayings — which grabbed the attention of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions — while announcing new charges against the violent gang.
“MS-13’s mottos may be ‘kill, rape and control,’ but the Department of Justice’s motto is justice for victims and consequences for criminals,” Sessions vowed in a press release.
Rhode’s office added seven additional names to a 17-person in- dictment unveiled earlier in the week that seeks to hold the gang responsible for a slew of violence throughout Long Island.
Three of the men added to the indictment — Alexis Hernandez, 20, Santos Leonel Ortiz-Flores, 19, and Omar Antonio “Anticristo” Villata, 19 — were nailed with participating in the quadruple homicide.
Six juveniles were also charged in the April slaying, but through separate documents because of their ages, a person familiar with the case told The Post.
The feds also added to the indictment charges against six men accused of killing Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla at a Central Islip deli on Jan. 30, 2017.
Three of the men — Enrique Portillo, 20, and brothers Alexi Saenz, 22, and Jairo Saenz, 20 — had previously been charged in the same indictment with the Sept. 13, 2016, murders of teenage female friends Nisa Mickens and Kyla Cuevas.
The gang tried to kidnap Cuevas, authorities said, and when Mickens fought back to save her pal, members chopped up both of them and left their bodies in Brentwood.
The drug-dealing gang, which is said to have originated in Los Angeles, has been linked to more than 30 murders in Suffolk County since 2013, officials said.