'Brutal Executions': 5 Gang Members Indicted For 'Savage' Murders On LI: Feds

BLUE POINT, NY — Five members of the violent criminal organization MS-13 have been indicted on multiple racketeering offenses in connection with a double murder on Long Island, federal officials announced Wednesday.

The murders include the October 28, 2023, murder of Yoneli Ramos-Moreno at the Sunken Meadow Bluff in Kings Park and the March 3, 2025, murder of Carlos Lopez-Lopez in Blue Point, officials said.

On Wednesday, the indictment was unsealed in federal court charging the gang members with charges including murder, conspiracy to commit murder and narcotics trafficking conspiracy, officials said.

The gang members charged include David "Tenebroso" Orellana-Aleman, a leader in the Hollywood Locos Salvatruchas "clique" of MS-13; Noel "Discreto" Portillo-Romero, a member of the Carlington Locos Salvatruchas clique of MS-13; Cruz Eduardo Sanchez-Gutierrez, aka "Escriper" "Poison," or "Bellaco," a member of the Hollywood clique; Ernesto "Perverso" Torres-Hernandez, a member of the Carlington clique; and Omar Zavala-Ventura, aka Snyder," "Little Ejecutor," "Pequeno Ejecutor," or "Liro", a member of the Hollywood clique, officials said.

"The indictment of these five individuals connected to the brutal executions of two people—all because they were viewed as disloyal—is a clear demonstration of our commitment to hold these defendants accountable," stated SCPD Commissioner Catalina. "The violence carried out by MS-13 reaches barbaric proportions and we will continue to collaborate with our law enforcement partners to put an end to this transnational gang’s reign of terror."

According to officials, the defendants participated in the murder of Ramos-Moreno, a former associate of the MS-13, who was targeted by the gang because he was suspected of being disloyal and specifically by associating with the rival Latin Kings. Ramos-Moreno was first lured to a parking lot in Hauppauge and then driven to the Sunken Meadow Bluff where he was strangled with a rope and beaten to death, officials said.

Officials said the gang members dragged his body deeper into the woods, left the area and later burned the rope used to kill Ramos-Moreno and destroyed his cellular phone.

In addition, Portillo-Romero, Torres-Hernandez and Zavala-Ventura have also been charged with conspiracy to murder Carlos Lopez-Lopez, who was stabbed to death and drowned after being attacked on the beach in Blue Point, officials said. The victim, a former member of the MS-13 who also participated in the Ramos-Moreno murder, was targeted because the MS-13 members believed that he was cooperating with law enforcement, officials said.

"The legal terms in the Indictment cannot adequately describe the sheer savagery with which the defendants, in service to the MS-13 gang, beat, strangled and murdered Ramos-Moreno and plotted to murder Lopez-Lopez," said U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr. "The charges in the indictment demonstrate my office and our law enforcement partners’ resolve to hold vicious transnational organized crime groups like MS-13 accountable for their crimes and continue the mission to eradicate them from Long Island."

The Indictment also charges the defendants with conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana, charges stemming from the MS-13 cliques’ street-level sales of cocaine and marijuana on Long Island, officials said.

According to officials, the proceeds of the drug sales were used to help finance the MS-13’s criminal operations, including purchasing firearms, ammunition and other weapons, and sending money to MS-13 leadership in the United States and Central America.

Officials said Portillo-Romero, Sanchez-Gutierrez and Torres-Hernandez were arrested Tuesday and are scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday before United States District Judge Gary R. Brown. Orellana-Aleman is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Zavala-Ventura is currently in federal custody and are slated to be arraigned at a later date.