MS-13 ‘Little Devil’ guilty on all counts in LI machete massacre
The Long Island woman dubbed MS-13’s “Little Devil” was convicted Monday of federal murder and racketeering charges for luring four young men into a deadly ambush at the hands of the notoriously vicious gang.
Linez “Diablita” Escobar, 22, was found guilty on all six charges after just 16 minutes of deliberations on Monday morning and jurors weighed the charges for about three hours Friday. She faces up to life in prison at her sentencing later this year.
Escobar showed no emotion as the verdict was read in the courtroom, sitting stiff-shouldered and staring forward blankly.
She was charged in federal court in Central Islip with helping orchestrate the brutal 2017 machete massacre.
The victims, who believed they were meeting her to smoke marijuana in a local park, were caught in a trap and attacked by the savage gangsters in what federal prosecutors called “a horrific frenzy of violence.”
![Leniz Escobar, aka Diablita or LIttle Devil, is seen in an undated mugshot entered into evidence Monday, March 21, 2022. Escobar, is charged with luring five young men into a wooded area adjacent to the Central Islip Recreational Center where more than a dozen MS-13 members armed with machetes, knives, an axe and other weapons lay in wait for the victims. Credit: United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/closing-arguments-ms13-diablita-feat-image-1.jpg?w=1024)
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