A high-ranking MS-13 member on Long Island will spend 68 years behind bars for his role in eight murders, including ordering ...

Alexi Saenz pleaded guilty last year​ for his role in the 2016 killings of Kayla Cuevas​ and Nisa Mickens, among others.

MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz was sentenced to 68 years in prison for approving the killings of individuals the gang perceived as ...

A key leader of what law enforcement calls "one of the more powerful, violent and well-established" MS-13 cliques on the east ...

Robert Mickens and Elizabeth Alvarado, and Evelyn Rodriguez and Freddy Cuevas, the parents of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, who were killed by MS-13 gang members, are recognized by President ...

Among the deaths Saenz pleaded guilty to were those of two Long Island teenagers -- 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas and 15-year-old Nisa Mickens -- who were killed in Sept. 2016.

It was brilliantly sunny on Sept. 14, 2018, the second anniversary of Kayla’s death. By the time Ms. Rodriguez and her partner, Freddy Cuevas, arrived at 6 Ray Court at about 4 p.m., the ...

MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz has been sentenced to 68 years behind bars for eight murders, three attempted murders, arson and drug trafficking.

A notorious MS-13 gang leader who led a bloody campaign of violence across Long Island — including the brutal slayings of two ...

Among the most prominent killings were those of Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, lifelong friends and classmates at Brentwood High School.