Seven members of the notorious Salvadoran gang MS-13 have been arrested and indicted on federal charges in the killing of three teenagers that shocked a Long Island community last year.
(FOX)- According to law enforcement officials, five were arrested Thursday morning and two were already in federal custody.
The arrests were made in a series of raids Thursday morning in Suffolk County executed by FBI and Suffolk police. Local and federal law enforcement have been cracking down on gang violence following the murders of the teenagers in Brentwood, N.Y., last year.
MS-13 has been blamed for 30 other killings on Long Island since 2010. U.S. Attorney Robert L. Capers has scheduled a Thursday news conference to discuss charges related to the new arrests.
Three of the suspects were linked to the September double murders of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas and 15-year-old Nisa Mickens, WABC reported.
(AP Photo/Michael Johnson, ICE)