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Testimony: Accused gang leader involved in killings

Originally published: February 21, 2013 9:25 PM
Updated: February 21, 2013 9:37 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 Suffolk County homicide detective and an FBI agent testified Thursday that an accused MS-13 gang leader admitted to them in separate statements that he was either involved in or was willing to finger fellow members in the killings of a 19-year-old Hempstead mother and her 2-year-old son.

Heriberto Martinez, 25, of Far Rockaway, is accused of approving the killing in February 2010 of the...

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