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MS-13 gang leaders guilty in 2010 slayings

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.

Jurors on Thursday found two leaders of the MS-13 street gang guilty in connection with four murders and being an accessory after-the-fact in a fifth slaying -- including the deaths of a young mother and her toddler son.

The brief but bloody killing spree over six weeks in 2010 was called by federal prosecutors "a reign of terror" that stretched from Central Islip to Far Rockaway.

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