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Southeast Queens gang leader Junior Zelaya Canales pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court for his role in three murders and multiple shootings during a reign of terror that spanned New York, Texas, and El Salvador.
Junior Zelaya Canales, 28, of Jamaica, pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in connection with his participation in the 2016 murder of 15-year-old Joshua Guzman in Hempstead, Long Island.
In 2016, Zelaya Canales was the regional leader of the Shatto Park Locos Locos Sureños (SPLS) sect of the 18th Street gang when he ordered that Guzman be killed because he was perceived to be disrespectful towards 18th Street gang members.
On the night of Sept. 11, Zelaya Canales dispatched two lower-level members to Long Island to lure Guzman out and murder him as part of a demonstration of their allegiance to the gang.
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