2 Suffolk MS-13 Members Sentenced In Murder Plot, 2016 Shooting

RIVERHEAD, NY — A pair of MS-13 gang members were doled out prison sentences for a conspiracy to commit murder as well as a 2016 Huntington Station shooting, Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini announced Tuesday.

Marvin Vilorio Ortes, A.K.A. "Gordo" A.K.A. "Danger," 25, of Huntington Station, pleaded guilty on Oct. 8 to second-degree conspiracy (a B felony), and first-degree attempted assault (a C violent felony).

Felix Menjiver A.K.A. "Blue Demon," 37, of Huntington Station, pleaded guilty on Aug. 8 to second-degree conspiracy (a B felony), and first-degree attempted assault (a C violent felony).

Ortes and Menjiver are both identified as high-ranking members of the Huntington Criminales Los Salvatrucha ("HCLS") clique of MS-13.

"When my administration came into office, we made a pledge to the people that we were going to eradicate MS-13, and we are making incredible progress," Sini said in a press release. "We have shifted the paradigm: We are no longer responding to homicides; we are preventing homicides. We are collecting reliable, actionable intelligence on a daily basis, responding in real-time and preventing crimes from happening. By charging these murder conspiracies we are able to save lives, and this case is yet another example of that."

On Aug. 4, 2016, Ortes and Menjiver shot a man, whom they considered a rival of MS-13, on East 20th Street in Huntington Station. He sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Between August 2018 and February 2019, while Ortes was incarcerated on an unrelated conviction for illegal weapons possession, he and Menjiver conspired to murder a different identified victim to further the gang’s mission. The gang members took various steps to plan the murder and to contact and threaten the victim, including messaging the victim on social media.

"These defendants conspired together and took steps in furtherance of that conspiracy to kill a victim, but we were able to collect intelligence in real time and prevent that murder from happening," Sini said.

Ortes was sentenced Dec. 9 to seven years in prison with five years of post-release supervision for the attempted assault and five to 10 years in prison for the conspiracy.

Menjiver was arrested by police on July 11, 2018, while trying to illegally sell a loaded .32-caliber handgun and roughly 20 rounds of ammunition to an MS-13 associate. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 8 to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon (a C felony) and fourth-degree conspiracy (an E felony) in connection with that case.

Menjiver was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison with five years of post-release supervision for the charges of attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon, four to eight years in prison on the charge of second-degree conspiracy and two to four years in prison for the charge of fourth-degree conspiracy.