Aracely Abarca-Melgar of Manchester and three different alleged MS-13 gang members accused of killing Rosa Sanchez Merino in Maryland.
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GAITHERSBURG, MD — Two ladies, one man, and a teen are in custody and charged with homicide in regards to the dying of 18-year-old Rosa Sanchez Merino in Maryland in Might.
Roberto Carlos Rivera-Delgado, Iris Yudella Alonzo-Salgado, Aracely Abarca-Melgar, and Edwin Alexander Rivas-Salvador are accused of killing Sanchez Merino on or about Might 1, 2023. In early Might, Rivera-Delgado drove the suspects to a wooded space alongside Brookeville Highway in Olney, MD, to homicide Merino, police mentioned. The group took Sanchez Merino into the woods, pressured her to her knees, and took turns hitting her within the neck with a machete, in response to courtroom paperwork. They later buried her physique in a shallow grave within the woods, police mentioned.
Rivera-Delgado, 23, was arrested for a parole violation in Nevada and extradited to Maryland on Sept. 29. He led Montgomery County Division of Police-Main Crimes detectives to the placement the place Sanchez Merino was buried.
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On Oct. 1, an post-mortem of Sanchez Merino was carried out by the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the dying was dominated a murder. By the course of the investigation, 23-year-old Alonzo-Salgado of Frederick, MD, and 21-year-old Abarca-Melgar of Manchester had been recognized as suspects concerned in Sanchez Merino’s dying and a warrant was requested for his or her arrest.
On the energy of the warrant, Abarca-Melgar was arrested in New York, the place she awaits extradition to Montgomery County. 16-year-old Rivas-Salvador was arrested on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, and is being charged as an grownup.
All 4 suspects had been charged with first-degree homicide. Iris Yudella Alonzo-Salgado, Roberto Carlos Rivera-Delgado, and Edwin Alexander Rivas-Salvador have been transported to the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, the place they’re being held with out bond.
