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   CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – An MS-13 street gang member was sentenced   
   to 55 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to   
   racketeering charges for his role in the brutal massacre of four   
   young men on Long Island.   
      
   Josue Portillo was 15 years old at the time of the April 2017   
   slayings. He admitted to planning the killings with other MS-13   
   defendants because he said they believed the four were rival   
   gang members. The victims, Justin Llivicura, 16, Michael Lopez,   
   20, Jorge Tigre, 18, and Jefferson Villalobos, 18, were lured to   
   a park and attacked with machetes, knives and clubs.   
      
   "Nothing can bring back the young lives lost, and no sentence   
   imposed by a court can truly bring justice in this situation,   
   but the Eastern District and our partners in the FBI's Long   
   Island Gang Task Force will continue to work relentlessly to   
   eliminate the scourge of MS-13 violence," Richard Donoghue, U.S.   
   Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a   
   statement.   
      
   The violence, including the 2016 slayings of two teenage girls   
   in Brentwood, led to congressional hearings and visits to Long   
   Island from both President Donald Trump and then-U.S. Attorney   
   General Jeff Sessions. At one appearance, Trump seemed to   
   reference the case directly, saying MS-13 members "have   
   transformed peaceful parks in beautiful neighborhoods into blood-   
   stained killing fields."   
      
   MS-13, also known as La Mara Salvatrucha, recruits young   
   teenagers from El Salvador and Honduras, though many gang   
   members were born in the U.S. The gang has been blamed for   
   dozens of killings since January 2016 across a wide swath of   
   Long Island.   
      
   Before he was sentenced in federal court, Portillo, 18,   
   addressed the judge in Spanish and apologized for the slayings.   
      
   "I know what I have done was so very wrong," Portillo said,   
   according to an English translation provided by Newsday. "I   
   apologize for my heinous crime and will always pray for the   
   families of these victims, none of whom deserved to die."   
      
   Portillo entered the country illegally from El Salvador and   
   faces deportation upon completion of his sentence, which   
   includes an order to pay $24,000 in funeral expenses to the   
   victims' families.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/ms-13-member-gets-55-years-in-prison-   
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