Overview

• Omar Antonio Villalta, also known as 'Anticristo,' received a 55-year prison sentence for his role in five murders committed in 2017, including a quadruple homicide in Central Islip, New York, and another in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• Villalta pleaded guilty in May 2023 to racketeering charges, including murder and conspiracy to murder rival gang members, as part of his MS-13 activities.
• The victims in the Central Islip killings were lured to a park by female MS-13 associates and attacked with machetes, knives, and clubs by gang members, believing them to be rival gang members based on social media activity.
• Villalta fled to Virginia after the New York murders, where he orchestrated the killing of a co-worker suspected of being an 18th Street gang member, demonstrating MS-13's violent retributive tactics.
• This sentencing is part of Operation Take Back America, a DOJ initiative targeting MS-13 and other transnational criminal organizations, which has led to numerous convictions in the Eastern District of New York.