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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…
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…
High-Ranking MS-13 Leader Arraigned On Terrorism Charges In NY After FBI's 'Most Wanted' Arrest High-Ranking MS-13 Leader Arraigned On Terrorism Charges In NY After FBI's 'Most Wanted' Arrest
High-Ranking MS-13 Leader Arraigned On Terrorism Charges In NY After FBI's 'Most Wanted' Arrest A top leader of the notorious MS-13 gang, who was recently added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, has been arraigned in federal court in New York. Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, 47, was taken into custody in San Diego, California, on Tuesday, March 18, after Mexican authorities located him in Veracruz and expelled him from the country, the US Attorney’s Office said. He had been a fugitive for nearly three years. Roman-Bardales, a founding member of MS-13’s leadership structure known as Ranfla en las Calles, was arraigned in the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, March 1…