MS-13 member sentenced in connection of murder of teen in Lincolnia
A Salvadoran member of the transnational street gang La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) was sentenced Feb. 28 to 25 years in prison in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an adolescent boy in Holmes Run Stream Valley Park in Lincolnia in 2016, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia reports.
Edwin Orellana Caballero, who was 16 years old and living in Alexandria at the time, was one of several members and associates of the Park View Locos Salvatrucha clique of MS-13 who kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old victim identified in court documents as S.A.A.T.
On the night of Sept. 26, 2016, the gang lured S.A.A.T. to Holmes Run Stream Valley Park and murdered him in a wooded area with knives, machetes, and a pickaxe. Orellana Caballero struck S.A.A.T. multiple times with the pickaxe. Once S.A.A.T. was dead, the gang buried him in a shallow grave.
Orellana Caballero, who was transferred for prosecution as an adult under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, pleaded guilty in November to one count of maiming in aid of racketeering activity. In so doing, he admitted to participating in S.A.A.T.’s murder for the purpose of maintaining and increasing his position in MS-13.
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U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. sentenced Orellana Caballero to the maximum prison sentence, 25 years, allowed under federal sentencing guidelines.
To date, a total of 17 defendants have been charged in this case. Of those, five defendants went to trial and were convicted of all charges. Ten defendants pleaded guilty prior to trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alexander Blanchard and Cristina Stam prosecuted the case.
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The FBI; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; U.S. Marshalls Service; the police departments of Fairfax County, Alexandria, Prince William County, and Montgomery County, Md.; and the sheriff’s office of Marin County, Calif., assisted in the investigation.
This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach.
How is it that 25 years is the maximum penalty under federal guidelines for a crime of vicious execution of a juvenile? He deserves a death penalty, as do all the members of any gang who partcipate in murder as a ticket to gang membership or promotion. We need to be able to eliminate the problem, not defer it.
Send the SoB back to El Salvador, where these murderers will get justice!!! They have a new president, President Bukele doesn’t tolerate crime and has reduced their crime rate to a small fraction of what it was. This is what we need in Mason, not some youngster flaunting making Mason a Cultural Center; a commendable goal, but do you jof first Supervisor Jimenez and put an end to the crime in Mason. That should be your NO ONE PRIORITY!
“U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. sentenced Orellana Caballero to the maximum prison sentence, 25 years, allowed under federal sentencing guidelines.
To date, a total of 17 defendants have been charged in this case. Of those, five defendants went to trial and were convicted of all charges. Ten defendants pleaded guilty prior to trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alexander Blanchard and Cristina Stam prosecuted the case.
The FBI; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; U.S. Marshalls Service; the police departments of Fairfax County, Alexandria, Prince William County, and Montgomery County, Md.; and the sheriff’s office of Marin County, Calif., assisted in the investigation.
This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach.”
I’m confident that Jiminez cooperated fully with any county, state, and federal agencies that may have called upon him, if this massive case was ever on his newly-occupied desk in the first place.
If you think that you can do better, I invite you to run for office yourself. However, the FCPD is short-handed these days; they would welcome your assistance, surely. Go get ’em, tiger!
If the current commonwealth attorney supported the FCPD & prosecuted the crime brought to him, and if the Board of Supervisors prioritized law enforcement then maybe people would again want to be a police officer. I work with many in law enforcement (across Federal, State & Local levels), and all are very concerned and frustrated by how elected officials have not supported or empowered them to do what needs to be done. It’s a very big reason hiring new police officers is so difficult.
Not in Lincolnia
Holmes Run Stream Valley Park is a park in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia. Holmes Run Stream Valley Park is situated nearby to the neighborhoods Valley Brook and Broyhill Crest.
Where the murder and shallow grave occurred it is considered Lincolnia – the murder was close to Parklawn Pool/Dowden Terrace on the Holmes Run Valley Stream II trail. The access points are Columbia Pike, Crater Place, and Chambliss street.
There have been four murders by MS-13 in this exact area.
Jill, these killings were in the wooded area near Parklawn pool. That is the Lincolnia area.
How does it take seven years for this person to be sentenced? Was he out on bail this whole time? This Fairfax resident is growing more and more wary of our ideologically compromised political leaders and judicial system.
The level of ignorance and lack of basic reading skills evident from these comments is pathetic. This case was brought in federal court, not FFX County. The defendant was a juvenile when the crime occurred, there is no death penalty for juveniles and 25 years is the maximum sentence for juveniles under the guidelines. It didn’t take 7 years to go to trial, the arrest was not made 7 years ago. Despite all the complaining, the article notes (if you can read) this was an obvious successful investigation, with 17 people arrested and successfully punished.