Alleged MS-13 members charged in Queens murders
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to assault Mosso and
eventually forced
him off the car at the
90th Street station
in Jackson Heights,
authorities say.
Once on the platform,
Gutierrez allegedly
said in Spanish,
“Nobody get involved,
we’re MS-13, we’re going
to kill him,” according
to Donoghue.
Gutierrez then allegedly
grabbed a gun
Mosso had taken from
his attackers and shot
him multiple times.
Mosso died on the train
platform.
Police later recovered
a video of the
murder posted to Facebook.
Gutierrez, Lopez
and Martinez-Alvarenga
face life in prison
and the death penalty
if convicted.
In a fourth incident
involving alleged
MS-13 gang members,
Marlon Saracay-Lopez,
Ismael Santos-Novoa
and Emerson Martinez
Lara were charged
with conspiring to
murder an MS-13 associate
who failed to
kill a rival gang member,
according to Donoghue.
The trio faces a
minimum sentence of
10 years in prison and
a maximum sentence
of life in prison if convicted.
While six of the
defendants have already
been arrested
in connection with the
crimes, four of the defendants,
who are all
currently being held
in detention facilities,
will be arrested and
transferred to federal
custody on Friday,
May 15.
BY JACOB KAYE
Ten alleged members
of the MS-13 gang,
nine of whom lived in
Queens, were charged
with three killings
that took place in
Queens from April
2018 to November 2019,
the U.S. Attorney for
the Eastern District of
New York announced
on Thursday, May 14.
The four complaints
were unsealed in
Brooklyn federal court
on Thursday.
Many of the alleged
gang members face life
in prison if convicted
of the crimes.
In the first incident,
Juan Amaya-
Ramirez, a 22-year-old
from Fresh Meadows,
has been charged with
murder of 17-year-old
Andy Peralta.
On April 23, 2018,
Amaya-Ramirez and
two others lured Peralta
into Flushing’s Kissena
Park, according
to the U.S. attorney.
Peralta was murdered
by the alleged
gang members because
he had a tattoo
of a crown on a chest,
which Amaya-Ramirez
believed was a symbol
of a rival gang, the
Latin Kings, according
to the criminal complaint.
After stabbing and
strangling Peralta,
Amaya-Ramirez used
his iPhone to take a
picture of Peralta’s
corpse as he displayed
MS-13 gang signs with
his hands, according
to the authorities.
If convicted, Amaya
Ramirez faces a
mandatory sentence
of life in prison and
potentially faces the
death penalty.
On Nov. 4, 2018,
Douglas Melgar-Suriano,
a 22-year-old from
Flushing, and Jairo
Martinez-Garcia, a 21-
year-old from Flushing,
both of whom are
alleged associates of
MS-13, shot Victor Alvarenga
to death on a
Flushing street early
in the morning, according
to feds.
Melgar-Suriano and
Martinez-Garcia both
face life in prison and
the death penalty if
convicted in Alvarenga’s
murder.
In a third incident,
alleged gang members
Ramiro Gutierrez and
alleged gang associates
Tito Martinez-Alvarenga
and Victor Lopez
have been charged
with the murder of
Abel Mosso on Jackson
Heights train platform
in February 2019.
On Feb. 3, 2019, Gutierrez,
Lopez and Martinez
Alvarenga allegedly
followed Mosso onto
a Manhattan-bound 7
train at the Flushing-
Main Street station
because they believed
he was a member of a
rival gang, according
to U.S. Attorney Richard
Donoghue. Once
inside the subway car,
Lopez and Martinez-
Alvarenga proceeded
Photos courtesy of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York’s offi ce
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