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Narcotics Trafficking

‘Career Narcotics Trafficker’ Pleads Guilty After Feds Find Coke, Fentanyl On Northway: DA ‘Career Narcotics Trafficker’ Pleads Guilty After Feds Find Coke, Fentanyl On Northway: DA
‘Career Narcotics Trafficker’ Pleads Guilty After Feds Find Coke, Fentanyl On Northway: DA A New York man labeled a “career drug dealer” pleaded guilty to a four-count drug indictment just before going to trial, authorities announced Monday, May 18. Kenny Seales, 49, faces eight years behind bars as part of his plea deal, the Saratoga County District Attorney’s office said. Seales, of Jamaica, Queens, was busted in an Aug. 29, 2025, traffic stop on I-87 through Malta, where cops found nearly eight ounces of cocaine and just under one-half ounce of fentanyl in his car, prosecutors said. He was charged with four counts of drug possession, and his trial was set to start late last w…
Alleged MS-13 Member Wanted For Murder Arrested In Hudson Valley, Feds Say Alleged MS-13 Member Wanted For Murder Arrested In Hudson Valley, Feds Say
Alleged MS-13 Member Wanted For Murder Arrested In Hudson Valley, Feds Say An alleged MS-13 gang member wanted for murder and drug trafficking in El Salvador has been arrested in Orange County, federal officials announced.  Alejandro Perla Cruz, 37, was taken into custody in Middletown on Sunday, April 13, during a joint operation involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI’s Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, DHS said on Tuesday, April 21. According to federal authorities, Perla Cruz is a Salvadoran national wanted in his home country for homicide and narcotics trafficking. Officials said he had entered the United States unlawfully…
MS-13 Leader Who Terrorized NY Gets Decades For Role In 8 Murders, Including Teen Girls MS-13 Leader Who Terrorized NY Gets Decades For Role In 8 Murders, Including Teen Girls
MS-13 Leader Who Terrorized NY Gets Decades For Role In 8 Murders, Including Teen Girls A notorious MS-13 gang leader who led a bloody campaign of violence across Long Island — including the brutal slayings of two teenage girls in Brentwood — will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Alexi Saenz, 30, also known as “Blasty” and “Plaky,” was sentenced to 68 years in federal prison in Central Islip federal court Wednesday, June 3, for a violent crime spree that rocked Suffolk County in 2016 and 2017. Saenz, a high-ranking leader of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique of MS-13, pleaded guilty in 2024 to racketeering charges tied to eight murders, multiple attempted m…