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Cop: MS-13 boss didn't want to kill alone

Leaders of the MS-13 gang Heriberto Martinez, left,

Photo credit: Handout | Leaders of the MS-13 gang Heriberto Martinez, left, and Carlos Ortega, right, are scheduled to go on trial in federal court in Central Islip.

A leader of the MS-13 street gang confessed in detail about how he and others killed a fellow gang member on a beach in Far Rockaway because he was not willing to murder their rivals, a former New York City police detective testified yesterday.

Now-retired Det. Oscar Ferrufino said that the leader, Heriberto Martinez, 25, of Far Rockaway, admitted that he and other members of MS-13 thought...

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