A Maryland man suspected in a Northern Virginia slaying linked to the gang MS-13 turned himself in Friday evening, police announced Saturday. Dimas Misael Canelas Santos, 27, was charged with the murder of Christian Alexander Sosa Rivas, 21, after he walked into the Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland and was taken into custody without incident. Canelas, who lives in Hyattsville, is among eight people suspected of killing Sosa, whose body was found in mid-January near the Potomac River in Dumfries, Prince William County police said. The murder is one of a string of killings in the Washington area in recent months with ties to the Central American gang known as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. A spokesman for Prince William police said Canelas is being held in a Prince George’s County jail awaiting extradition to Virginia.

Source: Washington Post April 01, 2017 15:27 UTC