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Detectives: Gang leader said he ordered bar killing

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.

Current and former Nassau homicide detectives testified Wednesday that an MS-13 gang leader confessed to them that he had a security guard in a Hempstead bar killed after a dispute over an unpaid bar tab for four beers.

The two, Milton Aponte and retired Det. Robert DePietro, said they came to the NYPD precinct in Far Rockaway in March 2010, after the leader, Heriberto Martinez, 25, of Far...

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