Testimony: Accused gang leader involved in killings
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.
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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...
