Bank heist susp feels a lot better
JORGE TIGRE tried to walk away from the ruthless MS-13 gang — only to wind up executed with three other young men in a Long Island park.
The 18-year-old victim’s heartbroken mother and sister explained Friday how the high school honor student became a target for the gangbangers after last September’s MS-13 machete killings of two girls who were best friends and high school classmates.
“He said, ‘That’s why I don’t hang out with them any more,’ ” his sister Monica Tigre, 20, told the Daily News as their mother wept Friday inside their Bellport, L.I., home.
“He kept his distance from them,” said Monica, who acknowledged one of Jorge’s pals was an MS-13 member. “I think they set a trap for him.”
The slain boy’s mother, Bertha Ullaguari, 43, sobbed in front of a shrine to her son. It had photos, candles and flowers.
The three other victims whose butchered bodies were found Wednesday night were identified by relatives as Justin Llivicura, 16, of East Patchogue, along with Michael Banageas, 18, of Brentwood and his cousin Jefferson Villalobos, 18.
Villalobos, who lived in Florida, arrived in Long Island last Friday to visit relatives.
Jorge’s mom agreed that her son began to steer clear of the crew after the savage murders of the teen girls in Brentwood. The killings were two of six already linked to the MS-13 set in Suffolk County.
Among those killed was Jose Pena-Hernandez, 18, whacked for violating gang rules, authorities said.
Jorge’s evasive efforts similarly annoyed the gangbangers at Bellport High School, where he was set to graduate on June 22.
“They had been harassing him at school,” his mom said of the MS-13 gang members. “On Sunday, he told his uncle ‘They keep harassing me.’ ”
Suffolk County investigators said the gang quickly emerged as the likely attackers in the quadruple homicide based on a “modus operandi” similar to previous murders.
No arrests were made after the bodies were found Wednesday night near the soccer fields at Recreation Village Park.
The man who discovered the bloody scene said he broke down in tears after a survivor of the attack steered him to the park.
Banageas, 18, had earlier told the man that he was heading to Central Islip to play soccer.
The four victims were lying face-down with multiple wounds, the Spanish-speaking man told reporters Friday.
“I can’t give more information because I cried a lot, and didn’t pay attention to my surroundings,” the man said.
Monica said her brother stopped going to high school because of constant harassment by gang members, including the repeated flattening of his car tires.
The parents of Llivicura, the youngest victim, told Newsday their son’s girlfriend received a video showing the bodies of all four victims left in a the park.
The couple recognized their son in part because he was wearing the same clothes as when they last saw him two days earlier.
Tigre’s mother was left to ponder why her peace-loving son wound up dead.
“He wasn’t a bad kid,” the distraught mother said. “He was a good kid. He was never bad . . . . He never did wrong by anybody. He was always very well-behaved.” A SECOND arraignment for an alleged bank bandit went much better than the first attempt.
Michael Ciaccio couldn’t make it through proceedings Wednesday on his arrest for a Queens bank heist that ended when a dye pack exploded and left Ciaccio literally red-handed.
During the first Brooklyn federal court arraignment, Ciaccio, 52, sat doubled over and mumbled that he understood what was going on. Ink stains still showed on his hands.
But Ciaccio’s lawyer said it would be better to adjourn the arraignment.
On Friday, Judge Cheryl Pollak asked Ciaccio how he was feeling. Ciaccio apologized and said “that’s what happens when you’re not on medication.”
Pollak remanded Ciaccio after the prosecution pushed for detention based on his criminal history and the lack of any bail package.
Though the prosecution didn’t get into specifics about Ciaccio’s past, the Daily News has previously reported about his mob past. Ciaccio was a government witness in the 2005 Miami federal court case against Gambino crime family captain Ronald (Ronnie One Arm) Trucchio.