A bloodthirsty member of the MS-13 gang pleaded guilty Thursday to four mu*rders, including the deaths of two Long Island teens who were attacked with baseball bats as they walked home from school and then kil*led with machetes.
Enrique Portillo, who is 26 years old, admitted to kil*ling Brentwood High School students Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, along with two other people in 2016. He pleaded guilty to racketeering and gun charges for their deaths and for two other ki*llings.
“I am guilty,” Portillo said in a statement that his lawyer, David Stern, read out loud in federal court in Central Islip during his plea hearing.
During the hearing, federal prosecutors revealed horrible details about the four mur*ders, like how the two teens were beaten to death on a residential street on the night of September 13, 2016.
“The defendant and others chased them and attacked them with baseball bats and machetes,” Assistant US Attorney Justina Geraci said.
“The defendant hit one of the girls so hard the bat actually broke.”
Portillo, who was wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit, also gave a detailed account of the sick attack. In his statement to the court, he said that he and other members of the notorious gang’s Long Island branch were in a car when they saw the victims.
“I hit one of the girls with a bat. “I also hit the second girl,” the man who admitted to ki*lling said through his lawyer. He also said that the teens had dissed the gang.
“I know that they died because of the attack,” he said in a statement.
Prosecutors say that when the girls’ bodies were found, they were covered in cuts and had suffered serious blunt force trauma to their heads and bodies.
As soon as Cuevas’s father, Freddy, heard the bad news, he quickly stood up and left the courtroom.
Portillo, who goes by the names “Oso” and “Turkey,” also pleaded guilty to the mu*rders of two men MS-13 members thought to be rival gang members: 34-year-old Dewann Stacks, who was k*illed in October 2016, and Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla, who was ki*lled in January 2017.
In addition to the four mu*rders, he admitted to setting a fire and trying to k*ill four other people, including two inmates with shanks while he was holed up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Portillo asked prosecutors through his lawyer to let everyone know that he had never helped the feds, because he was afraid of getting hurt in prison.
His lawyer, Stern, said, “He’s very worried about going to a prison where they think he did it.”
The mur*ders and attempted mur*ders Portillo confessed to were rolled into racketeering and firearms charges.
On the racketeering charge, he could go to prison for the rest of his life. On the firearms charge, he has to serve at least 10 years in prison.
“Today, the defendant pleaded guilty to taking part in four brutal mur*ders, including the ki*lling of two teenage girls as they walked home,” said US Attorney Breon Peace in a statement. “These mur*ders have left permanent scars on the Brentwood community, which has been dealing with violence and destruction from the MS-13 for too long, using machetes, knives, guns, and fire.”
“I’m sure that Portillo will get what’s coming to him when he’s sentenced for his horrible crimes. This Office won’t stop until all MS-13 gang members are held responsible for their complete lack of respect for human life and the rule of law.”
