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2020-09-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-
NY released MS-13 gang member facing federal murder charge
Courtesy of Democrats at State/Local levels, particularly Grandma-Killer Cuomo and Warren Wilhelm
[NY Post] Bumbling state prison officials put a reputed MS-13 gang member back on the streets — even though the feds ordered him held on a murder charge that carries the death penalty, The Post has learned.

Ever Morales-Lopez, 26, was granted early parole for a 2018 conspiracy conviction on Long Island and released from the medium-security Washington Correctional Facility in Comstock on Sept. 3, records show.

But a federal arrest warrant for Morales-Lopez was lodged with the state after he was indicted in July, along with seven other reputed MS-13 members, on racketeering charges that cover six murders, two attempted murders and a kidnapping conspiracy, a law enforcement source familiar with his case said.

The warrant was supposed to ensure he was transferred to federal custody to await trial instead of being sprung, the source said.

Instead, the FBI didn’t learn Morales-Lopez had been freed until Sept. 8 — five days after he was cut loose.

But members of the FBI-Long Island Gang Task Force were able to track him down and bust him within 12 hours, the source said.
Impressive.
Following his arrest, Morales-Lopez was hauled into Central Islip federal court on Thursday and ordered held without bail, based on a judge’s findings that he posed a "serious risk" of flight and "danger to the community," court records show.

Morales-Lopez — whose nicknames include "White Boy" and "Lenky" — is accused in the murder of Kerin Pineda, a rival gang member who was lured to a secluded, wooded area near the Merrick-Freeport border on May 21, 2016.

Morales-Lopez allegedly served as one of three lookouts who kept watch for cops as several MS-13 members used machetes to hack Pineda to death and bury him in a grave that had been dug a day earlier.
Nancy's Kids - spark of humanity and all
One of the charges against him, murder in aid of racketeering, carries either a mandatory life sentence or the death penalty.

Prosecutors haven't yet decided whether to seek capital punishment.

Prior to his release, Morales-Lopez was serving a sentence of 3½ to 10½ years after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy in Nassau County in 2018.

That conviction followed his arrest with 16 other reputed members and associates of MS-13 on charges that included murder, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking.

The allegations against Morales-Lopez involved conducting reconnaissance in New Jersey to find somewhere without any nearby surveillance cameras to kill a rival gang member, and discussing where to bury the victim's body and how deep to dig the hole.

Although he wasn't supposed to be eligible for parole until April 8, records show he was granted a "merit release" that reduces the length of an inmate's sentence by one-sixth.

The perk is available to prisoners "who have exhibited an acceptable disciplinary history and have achieved significant programmatic benchmarks," according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Service website.

It's unclear when he's due back in court.

Neither a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision nor Morales-Lopez's defense lawyer returned requests for comment.
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top
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#1 MS-13 gang member who could 'face the death sentence over murder of a rival' was mistakenly RELEASED from a New York state prison and free for five days before FBI noticed
Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-16 00:05||   2020-09-16 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 From Skid's article:
New York prison officials mistakenly released an MS-13 gang member facing a federal murder charge and it took five days to get him back behind bars last week.

Yeah. Right. Happens all the time.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-16 00:52||   2020-09-16 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 And on top of that, I noticed that it wasn't NY officials who went out and found him, it was federal.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-16 00:53||   2020-09-16 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown NYC. At least he wasn't left hanging.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-16 07:37||   2020-09-16 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 even though the feds ordered him held on a murder charge

Any consequences for disregarding such an order?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-09-16 12:26||   2020-09-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

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