Investigators returned to the Massapequa Preserve Saturday to continue the search for human remains after receiving information about a possible victim of MS-13 being buried there.

Sources told News 12 Long Island that they are acting on a credible tip in their effort to unearth a body.

The search started early Friday just south of the Sunrise Highway and north of the Massapequa Lake -- the same area where authorities found the body of Julio Espantzay-Gonzalez in March 2017.

Prosecutors say he was lured there in January 2017 by MS-13 gang members with the promise of sex and drugs. They say he was then hacked to death with machetes because MS-13 thought he was a member of a rival gang.

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It is also the same area that investigators returned to last November to search for human remains, though nothing was found then.

Nassau police, detectives and a state police K-9 unit were on the scene Saturday morning, scouting a heavily wooded part of the preserve.

“I have two young children, 15 and 16, two daughters, and my husband and I are absolutely terrified that something could happen to our kids or any other children in this area or any areas nearby,” says Cathie Bellini, who lives across the street from the preserve.

Police have not indicated whether anything was found during Saturday's search or whether they will return on Sunday.