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Key witness says she heard gang discuss killing mom, toddler

Originally published: February 19, 2013 8:21 PM
Updated: February 20, 2013 12:20 AM
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 former associate of the MS-13 street gang who said she was in the federal witness-protection program because the group has a contract on her life testified Tuesday she was present as gang members discussed the killings of a 19-year-old Hempstead mother and her 2-year-old son.

Carla Santos, who said she had been an associate of the gang for the 10 years since she was 12 and growing up in...

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