11 MS-13 gang members charged in 5 Houston-area homicides, police sayBy Aaron Barker - Senior Web Editor
Posted: 12:50 PM, September 04, 2018Updated: 1:28 PM, September 04, 2018 HPDPolice released the mugshots of eight people on Sept. 4, 2018, who were among 11 arrested in connection with five homicides in the Houston area. HOUSTON - Eleven members of the MS-13 gang were arrested in connection with five homicides that happened in theHoustonarea over the course of three months, police said Tuesday. The first homicide happened June 6 when a man was found hacked to death by a machete in Cullinan Park in southwest Houston, police said. Marlon Miranda-Moran, Wilson Ventura-Mejia, Miguel Aguilar-Ochoa and Carlos-Henriquez-Torres were charged with murder in connection with the case. Charges are pending against two other people, identified as Walter Mejia and Jimmy Villalobez-Gomez. RELATED STORIES
The second homicide happened July 3 in Liberty County, where a man was taken to a wooded area and beaten with a bat and then hacked to death with a machete after saying he wanted to leave the gang, police said. Walter Mejia and Villalobez-Gomez were charged in connection with this case. The third homicide investigation began Aug. 1, after the body of a man was found buried in a field at 5300 W. Fuqua St. after he was killed in Galveston, police said. The fourth homicide happened Aug. 4 at La Union Restaurant at Wilcrest Drive and Bissonnet Street, where a man was gunned down in the parking lot after getting into an argument with several people, police said. Jairo Licona-Cardenas, Elida Medrano and a juvenile were charged in connection with this case. An arrest warrant has been issued for a fourth person in this case, but police would not release any other details. The fifth homicide investigation began Aug. 30, after the body of a girl was found at the same Fuqua Street location where the man’s body was found Aug. 1, police said. Investigators said the girl was not a member of the gang and had been reported missing May 4. Police said all of the arrests were part of a multi-agency operation aimed at combating gang violence in the Houston region.
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发表于 2018-9-4 13:53:53
