An MS-13 gang associate from Fresh Meadows was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison on Tuesday, Aug. 26, for the 2018 slaying of a Corona teenager in Flushing’s Kissena Park.

Juan Amaya-Ramirez, 27, and his co-defendant Oscar Flores-Mejia, 25, from Elmhurst, who is also an associate of the transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to the murder of 17-year-old Andy Peralta in Brooklyn federal court last September.

Amaya-Ramirez, known on the streets as “Cadaver,” and Flores-Mejia sought to murder Peralta because they believed he was associated with the 18th Street gang, an MS-13 rival. Flores-Mejia, known as “Chamuco,” had seen an online video that depicted Peralta, whom the killers did not know. They plotted to kill the Corona teen because they mistakenly thought a crown tat

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