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Opening statements in LI gang slaying trial

Originally published: February 11, 2013 9:22 PM
Updated: February 11, 2013 11:11 PM
By ROBERT E. KESSLER  robert.kessler@newsday.com

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 federal prosecutor charged Monday that two leaders of the MS-13 street gang "left a path of death and destruction from one end of Long Island to the other for no better reason than to earn respect for their gang."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond Tierney spoke at the opening in federal court in Central Islip of the trial of Heriberto Martinez, 25, of Far Rockaway, and Carlos Ortega, 23, of...

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