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 .
The mother of a teenage MS-13 victim told the gangbanger who ordered her son’s grisly murder he should “rot in jail” — and she got her wish when a judge sent the Queens gang leader to prison for life. Melvi “Letal” Amador-Rios, 32, was hit with the mandatory life sentence at a Brooklyn Federal Court hearing Tuesday. He was found guilty in August of several violent crimes — including ordering .
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MS-13 gang leader Melvi Amador-Rios, 32, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of ordering the murder of a 16-year-old boy and orchestrating a shooting that left another teen paralyzed.