MS-13 gang member faces life in prison after pleading guilty to killing 3 men on LI

MS-13 member Jhonny Contreras faces a life sentence after pleading responsible to killing three males on Lengthy Island.
US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Jap District of New York

An MS-13 gang member pleaded responsible Tuesday to murdering three males on Lengthy Island — together with one he lured to a baseball discipline earlier than savagely beating and stabbing him to loss of life.

Jhonny Contreras, 28, now faces a life sentence in connection to the slayings, which came about in 2013 and 2015 with Contreras believing his victims have been members of rival gangs, federal prosecutors stated.

Contreras admitted that he and different members of the bloodthirsty gang murdered two males — Keenan Russell and Derrick Mayes — in 2013, pondering they have been each Bloods gang members.

In accordance with Contreras, he and one other MS-13 member armed themselves with a .25 caliber handgun and 20-gauge shotgun and used a stolen minivan — which was later wiped down and torched — to drive round and search for rival gang members to kill.

He additionally copped to his involvement within the 2015 killing of Cesar Rivera-Vasquez, whom he lured to a baseball discipline underneath the pretense of smoking marijuana.

Rivera-Vasquez was pressured to take away his shirt so others might determine his gang tattoo — earlier than he was crushed and stabbed a number of occasions.

His physique, buried underneath a big mound of dust, was solely found in April 2018.

Jap District of New York Legal professional Breon Peace stated Contreras’ responsible plea “demonstrated a complete disregard for human life.”

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Contreras was charged with racketeering and associated firearms expenses for the trio of murders. 

“With at present’s responsible plea, the defendant has admitted to taking part in a murderous rampage that was mindless and demonstrated a complete disregard for human life by looking down victims based mostly on an offending article of clothes or a tattoo,” stated US Legal professional for the Jap District of New York Breon Peace stated in a press release.

“His heinous acts have been motivated by a twisted want to extend his standing throughout the MS-13 gang,” Peace stated. “This case underscores the resolve of this Workplace and the Lengthy Island Gang Job Pressure to deliver the MS-13 to justice for his or her crimes towards our communities.”