On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police announced that four suspects charged in connection to an Olney teenager’s death, are MS-13 gang members.
Police believe 18-year-old Rosa Sanchez Merino from Olney was murdered sometime around May 1. According to the department’s press release, Roberto Carlos Rivera-Delgado, Iris Tudella Alonzo-Salgado, Aracely Abarca-Melgar, and Edwin Alexander Rivas-Salvador killed Sanchez Merino then buried her in a shallow grave along Brookville Road.
“In late September, after Rivera-Delgado, 23, was arrested for violating his parole in Nevada, he was extradited to Maryland,” according to the release. “Police records revealed that the suspect would later lead detectives to the exact spot in the woods where Sanchez Merino was buried.”
All four suspects were charged with first-degree murder.
(Pictured: three of the four suspects. Photo courtesy Montgomery County Police)
