MS-13 member charged in Queens pot dealer’s 2011 murder: feds

An MS-13 gangbanger has been busted connected national charges successful a Queens cookware dealer’s execution from much than a decennary ago, national prosecutors said Thursday.

Roger Morales, 31, was arrested Thursday greeting aft his indictment successful the murder-in-aid-of-racketeering of Norman Mizzell, who was shot dormant successful his Ozone Park bedroom connected June 5, 2011.

Morales, who goes by the nicknames “Crazy” and “Cyclone,” archetypal met the 30-year-old unfortunate erstwhile helium and different MS-13 members bought cookware from the unfortunate astatine his 128th St. home, the feds allege.

They came backmost to bargain much cookware respective days later, and erstwhile they realized helium wasn’t home, they broke successful and ransacked the place, the feds allege.

Mizzell confronted the gangbangers astir the burglary, which they saw arsenic a slight, truthful they decided to termination him, the feds allege.

They changeable him done his chamber model during a “feigned late-night marijuana purchase,” the feds allege successful a sentencing memo.

“As alleged, the suspect and his co-conspirators killed the unfortunate for the twisted intent of maintaining and expanding their positions successful the MS-13 gang,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said. “This prosecution reflects the resoluteness by my Office and our instrumentality enforcement partners to bring pack members to justness for their convulsive crimes and that we volition not beryllium deterred by the transition of time.”

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Morales was a juvenile astatine the clip of the murder, meaning his lawsuit is not decease penalty-eligible, and though helium faces the anticipation of beingness down bars, helium won’t look a mandatory beingness condemnation if convicted.

On Thursday, Morales’ lawyer Michael Marinaccio said his lawsuit “denies involvement” and has been moving for the past respective years arsenic a motortruck operator for a section cement company.

“We anxiously await the receipt of find materials. My client’s an American citizen. He’s moving hard. He helps enactment his siblings. This comes arsenic a large astonishment to him,” Marinaccio said.

“These allegations spell backmost to 2011,” helium said, adding the tribunal documents are bladed connected evidence.

Morales is portion of the Queens-based Centrales Locos Salvatruchas clique of MS-13, the feds allege. Last year, a national assemblage convicted the clique’s leader, Melvi Amador-Rios, of racketeering execution aft a proceedings featuring grounds from his ain brother.

Morales was arraigned successful Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday and ordered held without bail.