Authorities have arrested and charged five people in Maryland, Indiana, New Jersey and Texas in connection with what police are calling an MS-13 gang-related murder of a teenager.
Police in Prince William County said remains and bones were found in October 2015 in a wooded area near an apartment building in Woodbridge when officials were investigating an unrelated incident. The remains were later identified as those of Guillermo Hernandez Leyva of Montgomery County, who had been reported missing three months earlier.
Investigators said they found that Leyva had been beaten and stabbed near where his remains were found. He and the suspects had ties, police said, to the street gang MS-13.
Leyva’s murder and that of others is part of what law enforcement officials are saying is a resurgence of MS-13. In March, an FBI agent said the D.C. region is one of a number of MS-13 “hot spots” across the country.
Since Aug. 8, authorities said they have made the arrests in Leyva’s murder.
Those arrested include Carlos Ulises Ochoa Pineda, 23, of Montgomery County. He is charged with accessory before the fact and is being held without bond. A hearing is scheduled for him in mid-December.
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