An MS-13 member who butchered a Queens teenager with a machete to get a gang promotion was sentenced to 35 years behind bars Tuesday. Josue “Colocho” Leiva, 27, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to the 16-year-old Julio Vasquez’s murder and near decapitation last year — a week before his boss in the bloodthirsty gang went to trial. “He wanted to become a full-fledged member, to become a ...

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