Human remains discovered on Long Island after suspected MS-13 gangbanger tipped off authorities: sources
FBI agents and Nassau County police officers converged on Underhill Preserve in Jericho after a suspected member of the brutal gang, who was already in custody, tipped them off to the dead body, sources said.
The victim's identity and cause of death were not immediately known.
Nassau police officials referred The Post to the FBI for comment.
A bureau spokesperson said the agency was conducting 'investigative activity' at the preserve, which is near Jericho High School.
Photos captured at the scene show law enforcement carrying equipment, as well as a large paper bag, out of the woods.
The scourge of MS-13 has been a longstanding problem on Long Island – an issue addressed by neighboring Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney Wednesday night.
'They're going into the schools, and they're recruiting the kids,' the GOP prosecutor said on NewsNation.
'They will try to recruit young gang members, and they will start to try to enforce those rules that we spoke about, you know, at the earliest opportunity. And, unfortunately, what we see with the MS-13, really the drivers of violence in the gang are their youngest members.'
He told fill-in host Laura Ingle on 'Elizabeth Vargas Reports' that children as young as 12 or 13 are recruited by the bloodthirsty gang.
Attorney General Pam Bondi touted the arrest of an alleged MS-13 kingpin in Virginia last month, with the feds claiming he was drawn to the gang in middle school.
The Department of Justice, however, moved to drop its case against Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, a 24-year-old illegal migrant from El Salvador, in a court filing Wednesday, the Washington Post reported.
The one-page filing offered no explanation for the reversal, the outlet noted.
Tierney, in his NewsNation interview, said MS-13 is brazen in the crimes they commit.
'The MS-13 is probably the most unique gang in that their purpose is to be the biggest, baddest gang in the world. With the MS-13, the violence is because they want to be known as the biggest gang, most violent gang,' he said.
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