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American Dream Cut Short: Murder Victim Was Building Better Life In Hyattsville, Mom Says American Dream Cut Short: Murder Victim Was Building Better Life In Hyattsville, Mom Says
American Dream Cut Short: Murder Victim Was Building Better Life In Hyattsville, Mom Says "Without touching his heart they took his life." The mother of a 23-year-old Hyattsville resident is speaking out in the days following his death. Lusvin España was out to dinner in Chillum when he was killed by 34-year-old Alexis Romero and 27-year-old Edward Mejia-Sandoval  on Wednesday night, April 10, as previously reported by Daily Voice. Both Romero and Mejia-Sandoval were complete strangers to España, who according to NBC Washington and Telemundo 44 was having dinner with his boss and colleagues when the two came in and began wreaking havoc.  España and an emplo…
Noncitizen Nabbed For Drug Trafficking In White Plains: Feds Noncitizen Nabbed For Drug Trafficking In White Plains: Feds
Noncitizen Nabbed For Drug Trafficking In White Plains: Feds Thirteen unlawfully present noncitizens caught in New York face drug trafficking and possession charges, including several who were apprehended in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island, officials said. The thirteen criminal noncitizens were apprehended following an effort by Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City Fugitive Operations officers conducted from Monday, March 11 to Tuesday, March 26, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced on Friday, March 29.  The defendants all face charges related to the trafficking or possession of methamphetamines, fent…
Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor
Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor A Maryland drug and sex trafficker who ferried a young girl from Mexico into the DMV region will spend decades behind bars for his role in a nefarious scheme, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced. Gaithersburg resident Francisco Barahona, 46, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with all but 30 years suspended after pleading guilty last year to sexually abusing a minor. According to prosecutors, in 2019, Barahona was in the middle of serving a 10-year sentence for federal drug trafficking charges when the victim in the second case came forward to the police to …
Community Rallying To Send Body Back To Guatemala After Fatal Hit-Run In Cheverly Community Rallying To Send Body Back To Guatemala After Fatal Hit-Run In Cheverly
Community Rallying To Send Body Back To Guatemala After Fatal Hit-Run In Cheverly Friends and family of a 50-year-old man who was killed by a hit-and-run driver on New Year's Day are rallying the community for support as they hope to send his body back to his native Guatemala. Marcial Gregorio Tom was struck at around 8:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 1 at the intersection of Landover Road and Neighbor Lane in Cheverly by an unknown driver who fled the scene after the fatal strike, police say. According to a department spokesperson, officers were called to the intersection when passersby found the unresponsive man in the roadway. Investigators say that the driver was trave…
ICE Moves To Take Custody Of Teaneck Chef Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen ICE Moves To Take Custody Of Teaneck Chef Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen
ICE Moves To Take Custody Of Teaneck Chef Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen Federal authorities took the first step Wednesday toward seizing a 37-year-old chef from Teaneck who was jailed locally on charges of sexually assaulting an underage teenager. Victorino Romero was initially arrested by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on Tuesday, Dec. 19, following a joint investigation with Teaneck police, records show. They accused him of sexually assaulting a youngster that criminal records say was between 13 and 16 years old. Romero, who is married, was sent to the county jail in Hackensack to await a first appearance in Centra…
FUGITIVE SOUGHT: Accused Pedophile Living In Cliffside Wanted For Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen FUGITIVE SOUGHT: Accused Pedophile Living In Cliffside Wanted For Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen
Fugitive Sought: Accused Pedophile Living In Cliffside Wanted For Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen A 52-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a pre-teen in Fairview multiple times fled the country and has been in Guatemala for at least the past few months, a reliable source told Daily Voice. Detectives obtained a warrant for the arrest of Bernardo Velazco, a single and unemployed Guatemalan national who had been living in Cliffside Park when the assaults allegedly occurred. He is considered a fugitive from justice, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, Dec. 18. Fairview police alerted members of the prosecutor's Special Victims Unit after the alleged assaults …
Westwood Latin Cafe Paying Homage To Chef's Late Parents Reopens Year After Fire Westwood Latin Cafe Paying Homage To Chef's Late Parents Reopens Year After Fire
Westwood Latin Cafe Paying Homage To Chef's Late Parents Reopens Year After Fire A Bergen County Latin restaurant is getting ready to reopen more than a year after an electrical fire devastated the kitchen. Mi Flor Latin Cafe in Westwood has been closed since the fire in October 2022. The eatery announced it would be reopening on Friday, Nov. 17. Mi Flor opened in 2021 and is run by chef Eliu Salguero, who was born and raised in Guatemala in a family of 16 children, and Dean Evans, who retired from UPS after 25 years of working in IT. "After recovering from COVID in March of 2020, and meeting up wit Eliu, I decided I need to keep busy," Evans said before opening …
Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash
Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash Authorities have identified the man hit and killed on New Falls Road in Levittown on Monday, Sept. 4, as 64-year-old Francisco Chavarria of Bristol.  Chavarria died from multiple injuries, said the Bucks County Coroner's Office. The manner of death was ruled accidental.  It happened near the intersection with Vermillion Drive, Falls Township police previously said. Chavarria was hit by a Nissan Rogue around 7 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene, according to authorities.  The driver of the Nissan, a 21-year-old Morrisville resident, remained on-scene and is cooperatin…
Effort Underway To Send New London Teen Who Drowned Home To Guatemala Effort Underway To Send New London Teen Who Drowned Home To Guatemala
Effort Underway To Send New London Teen Who Drowned Home To Guatemala Friends and strangers from the community are coming together to help send a young Connecticut teen who drowned while swimming with his family home to Guatemala for his funeral. New London County resident Jaimer Martin Ico Gregorio, of the city of New London, was located on Sunday, July 30, in the ocean off Dunes Park Beach in Westerly, Rhode Island. Westerly Police Chief Paul Gingerella said Jamier went missing on Thursday, July 27, around 7 p.m. while swimming with family and friends. On Sunday, around 5:15 p.m. the police department received a report that a body had been recovered o…
Details About Guatemalan Couple's Fiery Deaths Shared By York Co. Coroner Details About Guatemalan Couple's Fiery Deaths Shared By York Co. Coroner
Details About Guatemalan Couple's Fiery Deaths Shared By York Co. Coroner An early morning house fire left a Guatemalan couple dead in York on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and nearly a month later deaths about their deaths were shared by authorities.  Randolfo Hernandez Garcia, 20, and Sulma Trigueros, 25, have been identified as the residents who were found dead in the first floor of their home in the 300 block of West North Street between Newberry and Penn streets in York City around 5:09 a.m., according to the York County Coroner's office and the country emergency dispatch service.  The three-story duplex was quickly upgraded to a two-alarm fire, thr…
Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say
Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say Leonel Ortega, a Guatemalan-born Philadelphia resident and beloved highrise window washer, died in a motorcycle accident on his way to work on Wednesday, June 7, his colleagues say. He was 22.  Ortega "meant a lot to us and everyone else that knew him," said Anthony Zurzolo, his coworker at Premier Window Cleaning in Port Richmond.  "He was a very hard worker that wanted everything to help his family," Zurzolo wrote in a tribute on social media. "Always smiling and just a great guy to be around." The Premier Window team also memorialized the late 22-year-old, who they said was "a member o…
El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case
El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case Four sons of notorious druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman are among more than two dozen members of Mexico's reigning Sinaloa cartel charged in a massive fentanyl-trafficking offensive announced by federal officials on Friday. The infamous quartet known as the Chapitos – each of whom had $5 million U.S. bounties placed on their heads – were dubbed “the pioneers” of fentanyl’s introduction to American users by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram during an April 14 news conference in Washington, D.C. “Death and destruction are central to their whole operation,” said Milgram, a former New Jersey a…
PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says
PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says Thousands poured into the streets of of San Cristobal Verapaz, Guatemala to honor the life of a 27-year-old Pennsylvania mother of two boys (both under two years of age) on March 19, 2023, those who knew her told Daily Voice. Rocio "Rose" Michelle Roberts.GoFundMe/Diane Ramirez Rocio "Rose" Michelle Roberts passed suddenly on March 15, 2023, according to her sister in-law Diana Ramirez. Posted by Christian Roberts on Thursday, March 23, 2023 "Rose’s mother is from Harrisburg, PA and her father is from Guatemala," where she in the small town of San Cristobal Verapaz with her family o…
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot The US Marshals have widened a search for a Maryland woman who they say was involved in an interstate murder-for-hire plot with her husband, reports Fox Baltimore. Jessica Erazo-Rosa, 36, is wanted on federal charges and has been on the run for more than a year since the arrest of her husband Rudy Adonaldo-Chaves following a 2019 undercover investigation into an international drug trafficking ring, continues the outlet. Erazo-Rosa is said to have been intimately involved with the plot, which was uncovered after an undercover agent set up an undercover buy. During the operation, he reportedl…
Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support
Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support The Trenton community has come together to support a local family after the unexpected death of their beloved 14-year-old daughter from cardiac arrest. Heidy N. Cortez Cruz died on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in a Trenton hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest, according to a GoFundMe created for the family. The funds will be used to “return her body and give her the last goodbye in her native country [of] Guatemala,” reads the campaign, launched by Fatima Marroquin. Nearly $4,500 had been raised before the fundraiser had stopped accepting donations. Meanwhile, a viewing will be held at …
Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg
Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg A Long Island man was sentenced for beating his two nephews with a metal pipe in 2018 in an attack that caused one of the victims to lose a limb. Carlos Ortega, age 42, of Central Islip, was sentenced to eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision for first-degree assault, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced on Monday, Nov. 21. The attack happened on Aug. 5, 2018, when the victims went to Ortega's home to pick up their grandparents, who were visiting from Guatemala, to take them out to dinner, the DA's Office said. Ortega saw the victims par…
'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals 'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals
'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals A fugitive who's been on the lam for years and captured last March is back in New Jersey after being extradited, authorities said. Fausto Ramiro Santos Carillo, 56, fled to Guatemala sometime after the Plainfield murder of 49-year-old Martha Morales in July 23, 2003, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel and Plainfield Police Director James T. Abney said. She was found in the East Third Street apartment she shared with Carillo, having suffered multiple stab wounds, authorities said. Following the murder, Fausto Carillo fled the area. In February 2018, the Union County Prosecutor’…
NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB
NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB UPDATE: The death of an electric motorcyclist who authorities said ran a red light before crashing into a Port Authority police car near the George Washington Bridge is being investigated by state authorities. State law requires them to review the Oct. 17 incident in Fort Lee despite the circumstances because the death occurred during an encounter with law enforcement. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office identified the victim as Fredy Rolando Queveda -- although loved ones and court records identified him as Fredy Quevedo, a 40-year-old Guatemalan immigrant. The officer…
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.
Baltimore Sisters Stabbed In Las Vegas Strip Attack Baltimore Sisters Stabbed In Las Vegas Strip Attack
Baltimore Sisters Stabbed In Las Vegas Strip Attack A pair of Baltimore sisters away on a girls trip were among eight victims of an unprovoked attack on the Las Vegas strip last week. Gabby and Cassy Hewes and the six other people were stabbed near the Wynn Las Vegas around 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, according to loved ones and local police. Two of those victims died. The suspect has been identified as Yoni Barrios, a 32-year-old Guatemalan native who carried out the attack to "let the anger out," abc7 reports. More than $16,000 had been raised for the Hewes sisters on a GoFundMe page as of Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Central Islip Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated Central Islip Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated
Central Islip Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated A Long Island man has admitted to beating his nephews so severely that one victim’s leg had to be amputated. Carlos Ortega, age 42, of Central Islip, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in Suffolk County court Monday, Sept. 26. His plea came more than four years after the violent attack occurred in August 2018, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. That’s when the two victims went to Ortega’s Central Islip home to pick up their grandparents, Ortega’s parents, who were visiting from Guatemala, to take them out to dinner. After arriving home and seeing his nephews, Ortega r…
Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument
Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument Leesburg police are looking for the suspect who stabbed a victim in The Manor parking lot, officials said.  At 9 p.m. on August 13, police arrived to parking lot where they discovered the victim, along with three other adult men, were drinking alcohol together, when an argument broke out and the victim was stabbed in his upper body, according to Leesburg police. The three individuals present during the incident were described as Hispanic men in their mid-thirties, between 5'5 and 5'8, officials reported. Police said the victim believed the suspects were possibly from Guatemala or Mexi…
Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior
Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior One of the youngest participants on Season 14 of America Ninja Warrior is a Massachusetts resident, but he is using the competition to pay homage to his native Guatemala.  Jacob Arnstein wanted to compete on Ninja since he was about five years old and started training for the competition when he was nine. The now 15-year-old freshman at Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton says there are two things that fuel his competitiveness. "I mostly do Ninja because it's really a great way to for me just to release energy," he said. "I also just really like the feeling of flying to the air,…
Two Convicted For Kidnapping Scheme Involving Children In Woodridge Two Convicted For Kidnapping Scheme Involving Children In Woodridge
Two Convicted For Kidnapping Scheme Involving Children In Woodridge Two more men have been convicted in federal court of scheming to kidnap two children from the region and repeatedly smuggle them over the border into Mexico to be a part of a sexual relationship, authorities announced. Mordechay Malka, age 27, and Matitau Malka, age 30, both US citizens from Guatemala who are members of the extremist Jewish sect Lev Torah, were convicted on multiple charges following a four-week trial in White Plains federal court. Federal prosecutors said that the Malkas participated in a scheme to kidnap a 14-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy in Sullivan County from their…
Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA
Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 19 to 40 years in state prison on Wednesday, April 6, for the repeated rapes of two boys in Bucks County, authorities said. Rosalio Suchite, of Warrington, pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2021, to two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a child, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Suchite was charged in November 2020 following an investigation by the Warrington Township Police Department, which discovered that he sexually abused the boys, ages 7 and 9, at his home on the 2200 block of Pileggi Road for at least three ye…
Two Sentenced For Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children In Sullivan Two Sentenced For Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children In Sullivan
Two Sentenced For Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children In Sullivan Two men have been sentenced for their roles in a salacious scheme to kidnap area children from their mother and smuggle them across the border into Mexico to be a part of a sexual relationship in the region, federal authorities announced. Nachman Helbrans, age 40, and Mayer Rosner, age 45, US citizens from Guatemala, were convicted in January 2021 following a four-week jury trial of child sexual exploitation offenses and kidnapping in Sullivan County. Specifically, Helbrans and Rosner were convicted in November 2021 of: Conspiring to transport a minor with intent to engage in crimina…
Police ID Man Found Dead In Suffolk County Wooded Area Police ID Man Found Dead In Suffolk County Wooded Area
Police ID Man Found Dead In Suffolk County Wooded Area Police have identified a 51-year-old man who was found deceased in a wooded area on Long Island as they continue to investigate his cause of death. The Riverhead Police Department reported on Monday, Feb. 7, that Oscar Patzan-Xiquin was identified as the man found dead in the area of Pulaski Street. Authorities initially announced that the death investigation was underway on Friday, Feb. 4, police said.  Police said Patzan-Xiquin was originally from Guatemala and most recently was experiencing homelessness in Riverhead. Authorities said members of the community helped …
Teachers Rally For 3 Students Whose Dad Was Struck, Killed By Car In Union County Teachers Rally For 3 Students Whose Dad Was Struck, Killed By Car In Union County
Teachers Rally For 3 Students Whose Dad Was Struck, Killed By Car In Union County A man was struck dead on his way to a laundromat, now three teachers are helping the family who suffered a tragic loss. Rosauro Herrera was hit by a vehicle on South Avenue at Atlantic Street Saturday morning, Tap Into Plainfield reports citing the acting police director Captain David Guarino.  He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased, according to the outlet. His wife was with him at the time of the deadly crash, according to a GoFundMe campaign page launched by the local teachers to help cover funeral expenses.  The crash happened just hours befo…
IDs Released For Five Family Members Found Dead After Massive Long Island House Fire IDs Released For Five Family Members Found Dead After Massive Long Island House Fire
IDs Released For Five Family Members Found Dead After Massive Long Island House Fire Friends have identified the five people killed during a massive house fire on Long Island. According to ABC 7 Eyewitness News, friends have identified the victims who perished in the fire in Riverhead on Tuesday, Nov. 16, as being Douglas Rivera and his aunt Sonia, his brother, as well as Sonia's two children. Rivera is from Guatemala and worked in the construction industry, the news channel reported. Related Story: Five Found Dead After Massive Suffolk County House Fire Breaks Out The blaze broke out around 10:40 p.m., at the three-story Riverhead residence located at 46 East 2nd St…
Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region
Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region Two men have been convicted of a salacious scheme to kidnap two area children from their mother and smuggle them across the border into Mexico to be a part of a sexual relationship in the region, federal authorities announced. Nachman Helbrans, age 39, and Mayer Rosner, age 45, US citizens from Guatemala, were convicted following a four-week jury trial of child sexual exploitation offenses and kidnapping in Sullivan County. US Attorney Damian Williams said that the two were found complicit in scheming to kidnap a 14-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy from their mother in Woodridge, then smug…