A high-ranking member of an MS-13 clique in New York pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering and other federal charges in a case involving seven slayings, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls that focused the nation’s attention on the violent Central American street gang.

A high-ranking member of MS-13 on Long Island pleaded guilty to seven murders, including the brutal killings of two high school girls that drew national attention.

CENTRAL ISLIP, Long Island -- A former high-ranking member of MS-13 pleaded guilty Tuesday in Long Island federal court to seven murders, including the 2016 killings in Brentwood, New York of Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, whose deaths drew national attention to the violent street gang's spread into the Long Island suburbs.