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'Things Will Get Ugly': Gambling Debt Collector From Long Island Convicted, USAO Says 'Things Will Get Ugly': Gambling Debt Collector From Long Island Convicted, USAO Says
'Things Will Get Ugly': Gambling Debt Collector From Long Island Convicted, Usao Says Two men, including one 86-year-old Long Islander, have been convicted for extorting money from someone who owed them a gambling debt, authorities have announced. Anthony Romanello, age 86 of Franklin Square, was convicted alongside his co-conspirator Joseph Celso, 50 of Queens on Monday, Dec. 11, according to the United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, Romanello and Celso, along with another Queens resident named Luan Bexheti, conspired from March to June 2017 to collect a gambling debt from an unnamed victim and a family member (named John Doe 1 and John Doe 2…

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MS-13 Member Sentenced For Brutal Machete Killing Of 15-Year-Old On Long Island MS-13 Member Sentenced For Brutal Machete Killing Of 15-Year-Old On Long Island
MS-13 Member Sentenced For Brutal Machete Killing Of 15-Year-Old On Long Island A member of the violent international crime gang known as MS-13 will spend more than two decades in prison for brutally murdering a 15-year-old boy on Long Island and then hiding his body. Eduardo Portillo, age 25, was sentenced in federal court in Central Islip Tuesday, July 12, to 25 years behind bars after admitting to his involvement in the killing of Javier Castillo. Earlier report: Long Island MS-13 Gang Member Admits To Murdering 15-Year-Old Boy Federal prosecutors said Portillo and other members of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of MS-13 convinced the tee…

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by Michael Mashburn