The FBI issued a warning on Wednesday that the Central American migrant street gang MS-13, which had previously wreaked havoc in Fresh York’s Long Island, has been seeking to “rebuild” by announcing a new indictment on racketeering charges in a spate of killings.
Eight members and associates of the violent transnational criminal organization Mara Salvatrucha, known as the “MS-13,” were charged in a 29-count superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in Central Islip, including multiple racketeering offenses with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and related narcotics and firearms offenses as predicate racketeering acts.
Conspiracy theorists believe that Marcus Bohannon, 27, was murdered on a roadway in Central Islip in 2016.
According to the new accusation, in 2016 MS-13 members led suspected rivals from the 18th Street gang, Kerin Pineda and Javier Castillo, into the woods or an isolated marsh region, where they fatally stabbed them with machetes and buried their corpses in holes.
