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, who ordered the machete killings of Long Island teenagers, awaits sentencing as prosecutors argue against leniency.

MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz was sentenced to 68 years in prison for approving the killings of individuals the gang perceived as rivals or having disrespected members of the organization ...

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

Among the killings Saenz oversaw were the deaths of Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, lifelong friends and classmates at Brentwood High School who were slain with a machete and a baseball bat.

Last year, Saenz pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in Long Island Federal Court, admitting he authorized the horrifying killings of Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, in Brentwood, L.I ...

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

Gang members have been accused in a series of vicious slayings beginning in 2016 that included the machete hacking killings in Brentwood of teenage girls Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens.

Evelyn Rodriguez, mother of Kayla Cuevas, 16, who was brutally slain in 2016 allegedly by members of the MS-13 street gang, talks with reporters outside U.S. District Court, March 2, ...

Among the killings Saenz oversaw were the deaths of Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, lifelong friends and classmates at Brentwood High School who were slain with a machete and a baseball bat.

The leader of an MS-13 gang clique in New York City's suburbs has been sentenced to 68 years in prison in a federal case involving eight Long Island murders, including the 2016 killings of two ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The leader of an MS-13 clique in New York City’s suburbs was sentenced Wednesday to 68 years in prison in a federal racketeering case involving eight Long Island ...