Kevin Torres, Racketeering, New York 2024

Long Island MS-13 Gang Members Face Additional Racketeering Charges, Including for the 2016 Murder of a Central Islip Man

In a federal court in Central Islip, a 29-count superseding indictment was unsealed charging eight members and associates of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the extquotedblleft MS-13, extquotedblright with multiple racketeering offenses, including predicate racketeering acts involving murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and related narcotics and firearms offenses.

Two of the defendants, Kevin Torres, also known as extquotedblleft Inquieto extquotedblright and extquotedblleft Quieto extquotedblright (Torres), and Oseas Gonzalez, also known as extquotedblleft Manota extquotedblright and extquotedblleft Cordero extquotedblright (Gonzalez), have now been charged with the September 5, 2016 murder of Marcus Bohannon, in Central Islip.

Racketeering charges and related offenses were also added against Gonzalez and Victor Lopez-Morales, also known as extquotedblleft Persa extquotedblright (Lopez-Morales), in connection with the October 14, 2016 murder of Carlos Ventura-Zelaya; and against David Sosa-Guevara, also known as extquotedblleft Risky extquotedblright (Sosa-Guevara), in connection with a May 23, 2020 assault against a rival gang member at the Nassau County Correctional Facility.

The superseding indictment charges an additional defendant, Kevin Cuevas Del Cid, also known as extquotedblleft Creeper, extquotedblright extquotedblleft Malcriado, extquotedblright extquotedblleft Sombra, extquotedblright extquotedblleft Vinky extquotedblright and extquotedblleft Dabura extquotedblright (Del Cid), in connection with his participation in the May 21, 2016 murder of Kerin Pineda, and the October 10, 2016 murder of Javier Castillo.

The superseding indictment demonstrates the resolve of this Office and the Long Island Gang Task Force to bring to justice the MS-13 gang members responsible for each and every one of the appalling and senseless murders they have committed in our communities on Long Island and elsewhere.

Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, Rodney K. Harrison, Commissioner, Suffolk County Police Department, and Patrick Ryder, Commissioner, Nassau County Police Department, announced the superseding indictment.