Brentwood High School students Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, were beaten and hacked to death on Sept. 13, 2016

Teens girls were killed on the orders of MS-13 Honcho, Jairo Saenz, because gang believed the girls disrespected them on social media

Jairo Saenz, aka ‘Funny’, 25, Tuesday smirked as he pled guilty in a New York court to his role in fatal attacks dating to 2016, including giving the order to kill Cuevas and Mickens

He pled guilty to seven murders as well as racketeering, arson and attempted murder charges on Tuesday

ISix months earlier, his brother, MS-13 leader Alexi ‘Blatsy’ Saenz, 28, was sentenced to 70 years for eight murders

Jairo Saenz, [center], a reputed high ranking member of MS-13, on Tuesday pled guilty to seven murders as well as racketeering, arson and attempted murder charges. MS-13 member Jairo Saenz, aka ‘Funny,’ [right], was all smiles in federal court, where he was sentenced to 60-years in prison sentence for seven murders, racketeering, arson and attempted murder

A high-ranking member of the vicious migrant gang MS-13 nicknamed “Funny” couldn’t stop smiling in the Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday, even as he was slammed with a 60-year sentence for seven brutal murders.
25-year-old Jairo Saenz, a honcho, [leader], with the gang’s Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique, smirked as he pled guilty to his role in fatal attacks dating back to 2016. The charges include giving the order to kill two high school girls who the gang believed disrespected them on social media.
Brentwood High School students Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, were beaten and hacked to death on Sept. 13, 2016, among other charges in the 41 count indictment that the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York leveled against a total of 13 gang members.

Sibling members of MS-13: In July, MS-13 leader Alexi ‘Blatsy’ Saenz [left], pled guilty to eight murders, and was sent away for 70 years, six months before his brother Jairo Saenz, aka ‘Funny,’ [right], admitted to seven murders, receiving a 60-year sentence

“My reaction to that is that he’s trying to see his family for the last time because he’ll never see them again,” Mickens’ mother, Elizabeth Alvarado, said outside the courtroom. “What he did to my daughter is the same thing — I’ll never see her again.”
Saenz, 28, and his brother, Alexi Saenz, aka ‘Blatsy’, were among 13 reputed MS-13 members indicted by the federal prosecutors in 2017.
Alexi Blatsy Saenz, sometimes known as ‘Plaky,’ pled guilty to eight murders, including the two teens, in July, and could spend up to 70 years in prison. However, the plea agreement was contingent on his brother Jairo also taking a plea.
The second arm of that arrengement was finally executed on Tuesday.

High school kids Nisa Mickens, [left], 15, and Kayla Cuevas, [right], 16, were hacked to death by MS-13 members for allegedly disrespecting the gang on social media, federal prosecutors said.

A memorial at the site where teens Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas were hacked to death on Long Island, New York, in 2016

“Today, Jairo Saenz pled guilty to seven murders that can only be described as barbaric, and multiple acts of senseless gang violence that had turned parts of Long Island into a war zone,” Acting US Attorney Carolyn Pokorny said in a statement after the proceedings.
“It is my sincere hope that today’s guilty plea brings some measure of solace and closure to the families of the defendant’s victims who continue to mourn the deaths of their loved ones,” Pokorny said.
In court, Jairo Saenz couldn’t keep a smile off his face, turning several times to make eye contact with his mother and sister in the courtroom.

Kayla Cuevas’ mother, Elizabeth Alvarado [photo], was in court Tuesday to see the MS-13 goon who killed her daughter plead guilty, said after the sentencing, “My reaction to that is that he’s trying to see his family for the last time because he’ll never see them again” – “What he did to my daughter is the same thing — I’ll never see her again”

“I came to this country and worked for two years before joining in 13,” the killer said in a statement in Spanish read by his attorney. “I knew MS-13 was a gang back in El Salvador. I know that MS-13 had members in Franklin and Central Islip. We agreed to kill a man.”
In the statement, Jaenz then went on to admit to the string of vicious killings.
In addition to the teens he ordered killed, Saenz admitted to the slaying of Esteban Alvarado-Bonilla at an East Islip deli on Jan. 30, 2017, targeted because he wore a No.18 jersey that the gang took to mean he was a member of a rival crew, prosecutors said.
On Oct. 10, 2016, he ordered the death of 15-year-old Javier Castillo, who was hacked to death in Freeport as a reputed rival, and three days later, he drove three MS-13 members to kill Dewann Stacks, also believing him to be affiliated with a rival gang.
Then, on Sept. 5, 2016, the Saenz brothers shot and killed Marcus Bohannon, believing he was a member of the rival Bloods gang, hitting him with nine slugs.
On April 29, 2016, Saenz gave the green light for the gang to kill Oscar Acosta for suspected dealings with the rival 18th Street gang, prosecutors said.
In the earliest murder, Saenz and other gang members lured Michael Johnson into the woods to smoke weed, only to ambush him and hack him to death with knives and machetes.

For George Johnson, father of Michael Johnson, who maintains that his son who was bipolar was not a rival gang member – the reason for his murder – the killer’s guilty plea brings some closure

Saenz also pleaded guilty to racketeering, arson and attempted murder charges.
Johnson’s father, George Johnson, said outside the courtroom Tuesday that he still mourns his loss.
“I’m getting closer to the closure I’ve been seeking for the last eight years,” the elder Johnson said. “I wasn’t happy with the smile, but I guess he’s got nothing else to show for his actions.
“He’s not happy,” he added. “I know he can’t be happy where he’s at.”