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Friday’s federal jury kidnapped and brutally killed two teenage Virginia boys who were “accidentally” suspected of being members of rival gangsters and police informants. -13 Convicted a gang member.
Elmer Zelaya Martinez, 31 years old. Ronald Herrera Contreras, 24 years old. Henry Zeraya Martinez, 28; Pablo Velasco Barrera, 24 years old. Duglas Ramirez Ferrera, 25, from El Salvador, planned to kidnap and kill both a 17-year-old boy from Falls Church and a 14-year-old boy from Alexandria, who mistakenly suspected he was in a rival gang. According to court records, he was a police informant in August 2016.
Gang members pretended to attend a gang meeting in the woods and invited both boys to Holmes Runstream Valley Park on August 28 of that year.
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They stabbed a 17-year-old boy many times, restrained, attacked, and killed by “chopping” more than 100 times “with a knife, machete, pickaxe” and then stuffing them into a hole before digging. According to the Justice Ministry, the foot of a boy in the process of putting his body inside.
Members of the gang also detained, attacked, and killed a 14-year-old boy by stabbing and chopping his body with the same weapon. When the 14-year-old child died, they broke his leg and tied him up in his pajamas so that he could fit in the hole before the digging. I shot all of it and sent it to both US and El Salvador gang leaders. To prove their rank, the DOJ said.
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The boys were reported missing until the body was found in March 2017 and identified in December 2017.
A total of 17 defendants were indicted in the almost six-year-old case.
All five defendants convicted in federal court in Virginia on Friday were charged with a plot of kidnapping and murder to support kidnapping activities. A kidnapping plot; a murder that encourages slurping activities. Kidnapped and killed. They are all facing life imprisonment.
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According to the DOJ, MS-13 is a multinational gang consisting primarily of El Salvador or other Central American individuals.
The gang has more than 10,000 members with regular activities in at least 10 states and Washington, DC, and in a 2021 press release, “Thousands more gang activities in Central America and Mexico. I am. “