Three students from long island, which, according to law enforcement agencies, are members of MS-13 in January, was stabbed in the back of a classmate, had made the allegations.
The suspects Ramon Lopez, Nobels Zuniga and Oscar Molina did not plead guilty and claim innocence. He appointed a security Deposit of $100 thousand.
January 9, the Prosecutor’s office said that during the fight, Lopez was stabbed in the back with a knife 16-year-old student of Huntington high school near the Burger King at the station in Huntington. According to the prosecution, Zuniga and Molina was complicit in the attacks, and they at itself in the time of the fight was with knives and lead pipes. With the arrest of 17-year-old Molina actually found two knives, one hidden in each sock. Investigators also believe that Zuniga was driving the car in which all three fled the scene of the crime.
As a wounded teenager, the defendants are high school students Huntington. All three of them had illegally entered the country, but in 2017, the Federal district judge released them from custody.
Lawyers for the defendants deny the communication to our clients with MS-13, and stated that defendants were themselves victims because in the fight they were attacked by 15-20 guys, and that the victims started the fight, which wounded one of the students.
«In fact they [the victims] were the instigators, and probably a member of some gang,» said the lawyer Zuniga Donald Mats.
NY-MS13 gang-Nobeli Zuniga, Ramon Lopez, Oscar Molina, 17, is facing 2nd-degree assault chrges in the brawl outside a fast food restaurant in Huntington. All 3 entered the US illegally as unaccompanied minors. Two 16-year-olds suffered injuries in fight, 1 with stab wound, Fed judge let go. pic.twitter.com/l1q0mVAjh0
— Blanche V. Mercaldi (@tammytabby) January 11, 2019
But the Prosecutor’s office confidently maintains his version of events.
«Evidence podtverjdayut that the defendants started the conflict believing that the other was looking at them in some disrespectful manner,» said Suffolk County Prosecutor Timothy Blue.
In 2017, the Blue reported that the police of Suffolk believes Lopez Molina and members of the gang MS-13. The Prosecutor added that they have confirmed this information. Teenagers had been detained for several months by the Federal government and ICE before a Federal judge freed them.
«They returned to Suffolk, and there we have it — now they are accused of wounding another boy,» insisted Blue.
Attorney Lopez Jason Bassett said that a Federal judge issued a 46-page decision on the punishment of the government for keeping Lopez in custody without sufficient grounds proving that he was a member of MS-13. All three defendants will have to appear again in courtroom in February.
Read more about the arrest of three suspects can be found here.
