MS-13 Members Charged In Huntington Stabbing

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For the past two years, the problem of MS-13 gang members and the often-deadly crimes they have been charged with, has garnered national attention. Both President Trump and former Attorney General Jefferson Sessions have made highly-publicized visits to Suffolk Community College to pledge their determination to defeat the gang problem.

It hasn’t yet happened. Last week, the once-pleasant village of Huntington Station was the scene of an alleged MS-13 attack, as a 16-year old Huntington High School student, whose name remains withheld from the public, sustained non-life threatening injuries after being attacked by three of his high school classmates.

According to police, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at around 3:30 p.m., an unidentified youth was leaving the Huntington Burger King, when three of his classmates also left the building, went to a car, and attacked him with bats and knives. Police gave the names of the suspects as Ramon Arevalo Lopez, Nobeli Montes Zuniga and Oscar Canales Molina, all of Huntington Station.

Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart acknowledged that the suspects are MS-13 members.

“Everyone arrested are confirmed members of MS-13 and the incident is a reminder of this gang’s violent ways,” Hart said at a press conference.

The suspects, police added, were arrested about an hour after the attack took place. Published reports said that the suspects had blood on their hands and clothing, making the arrest easier to make, One suspect, police said, was found with two knives in his possession.

Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini said that all three suspects entered the United States illegally. Her office added that two of them—Lopez and Molina—were picked up by Department of Homeland Security agents in 2017. Lopez, police said, was released by a federal judge in June 2018, while Molina, the district attorney added, was released by federal district judge in November 2017.

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