MS-13 member Joya Parada is jailed for 50 years in death of missing teen, 17, who was stabbed 100 times and dismembered
MS-13 MEMBER Joya Parada was jailed for 50 years following the death of a missing 17-year-old who was stabbed 100 times and dismembered.
After a three-month-long trial, Parada was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for racketeering charges stemming from his involvement in the gang's attack on then 17-year-old Irvin Orellana.
This sentencing follows a string of gang-related activity stemming from the 2017 incident, the .
Officials began searching for Orellana after he failed to appear in court on gang-related assault charges where members beat a 15-year-old boy for refusing to join the international criminal gang in 2017, .
Authorities in Anne Arundel County searched for months before finding Orellana's body dismember in a park. An autopsy later revealed he had been stabbed more than 100 times.
Police said the murder was the work of several members of the gang La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13.
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Prosecutors said in court filings that Parada was a new member of MS-13 at the time of the murder and was willing to kill in order to climb up the ranks.
Other members of Parada's clique had heard that Orellana was "giving information to rival gang members through a girl," and then decided to lure him to Wheaton Regional Park.
A trial memo said the gang members told Orellana "they were going to a party where there were girls."
Parada and a few other gang members had dug a grave at the park in Montgomery County the night of the incident.
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When people arrived with Orellana, at least nine members of the gang proceeded to stab and dismember him according to prosecutors.
Parada was 16 at the time of Orellana's, then 17, murder.
Parada is the latest gang member sentenced in a federal racketeering case against dozens of members of MS-13.
The US Court for Maryland filed this case and has convicted more than 30 members or associates of the gang since the gang killings started in 2016.
According to , MS-13 is "one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States."
"Over the years, members of the international gang have been convicted of a number of crimes across the country, ranging from racketeering to murder."
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