#Trump: MS-13 members caught in NY — and one may face death penalty

President Trump on Wednesday said MS-13 gang leaders were nabbed across the country in the Justice Department’s recent Operation Vulcan crackdown — with seven arrests in New York.

Attorney General William Barr told reporters in the Oval Office that the Justice Department also will seek the death penalty for MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz, who is charged with multiple Long Island murders, including the infamous saying of best friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas in Brentwood in 2016.

“We will not allow these animals to terrorize our communities and my administration will not rest until every member of MS-13 is brought to justice,” Trump said.

Operation Vulcan also netted 15 MS-13 suspects in Las Vegas, and the Justice Department filed terrorism charges in a Virginia federal court against alleged MS-13 ringleader Nell Garcia Diaz.

The Salvadoran group is “a vile and evil gang of people,” the president said. “We’ve just concluded a historic operation leading to the arrest and indictment of dozens of savage MS-13 members and leaders all across the country.”

Barr and Trump were joined in the Oval Office by assistant US attorney John Durham Jr. of New York, who is leading anti-MS-13 efforts. The announcement did not specify the criminal charges against the seven MS-13 suspects arrested in New York.

Saenz, who the feds will seek to execute, was already in custody for seven murders including the killings of the two teenage girls in 2016.

“The president made a trip to Brentwood, New York, earlier in his administration and he met with the families of victims that had been killed by MS-13, including the family of two young girls who were butchered with machetes,” Barr said.

“And the person that we are seeking the death penalty against was involved in those murders as well as the murder of two African Americans who they felt they just saw on the street and thought they were from a rival gang and just butchered.”

Barr said Long Island “is one of the hotbeds of MS-13 activity — or at least was.”