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 ...

MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz, who ordered the machete killings of Long Island teenagers, awaits sentencing as prosecutors argue ...

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

Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, who were lifelong friends and classmates at Brentwood High School, were killed with a machete and a baseball bat in 2016.

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.

The girls, Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, were killed in 2016 by Enrique Portillo and two other members of MS-13, prosecutors said.

MS-13 member Jairo Saenz pleaded guilty to seven murders, including the 2016 killings in Brentwood, New York of Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens.

The sun shone brightly as she lay candles, balloons and a large floral wreath next to a grinning photograph of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas. Hours later, 50-year-old Rodriguez learned that the vigil ...