Thread: VA Another illegal alien gang attack in Loudoun County

Dave Gibson
July 7, 4:25 AM
Norfolk Crime Examiner

A little before 11:00 p.m. on July 4. a 22-year-old man was walking with some friends in the Whitcomb Square area of Sterling Park when he was approached by

Jose E. Salmeron-Zelayandai, 20, and Carlos Hernandez-Trochez, 20.

One of the men grabbed him from behind and both attacked him. They stabbed the victim repeatedly, then fled the scene.

Witnesses were able to give a good description of the assailants to police and both Salmeron-Zelayandai and Hernandez-Trochez were apprehended shortly after the attack.

The victim is recovering from his wounds.

Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kraig Troxell said that both Salmeron-Zelayandai and Hernandez-Trochez had been charged with malicious wounding and gang participation. They are being held without bond and federal immigration detainers have been filed against them.

Troxell declined to name the gang with which the men are affiliated.

Of course, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal aliens in recent years, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most infamous gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade, that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been initiation acts.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was then left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.


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