2 more suspects arrested in teen murder

Francis Artiga-Cordoza was located on Tuesday in Worecester, Massachusetts and charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping. Artiga-Cordoza, who lives in Manassas, is being kept in Massachusetts awaiting a extradition hearing.

Police also arrested 17-year-old Ana Villatoro and charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping.

Monday, Montgomery County Police said six members of the 18th Street gang were charged with first-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Dennys Alfredo Guzman-Saenz of Hyattsville.

Several 18th Street gang members abducted Guzman-Saenz from a Metrobus stop in Langley Park on Jan. 18. and tricked him into admitting he had ties to the MS-13 gang, according to charging documents.

Police say the gang members took Guzman-Saenz to Gaithersburg and notified other gang members that a rival gang member had been caught and they could participate in the murder.

Guzman-Saenz was stabbed 72 times with multiple knives, charging documents show. His body was found near a stream in Malcolm King Park in Gaithersburg on Jan. 19.

All six - four men and two women - appeared in Montgomery County District Court via circuit TV on Monday and are being held without bond.

Charging documents show after the murder, some of the suspects drove to a local grocery store and bought beer to celebrate.

According to charging documents, two of the suspects kept one of the knives used in the murder and used it to prepare food on multiple occasions.

An additional suspect was caught late Monday afternoon and could face murder charges, police say.

The members of the 18th Street gang went out that night with the intention of harming someone from a rival gang on the 18th day of that month, police say.

Police say Guzman-Saenz was not an official member of the MS-13 gang, but associated with its members.

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