5 linked to MS-13 held in kidnap try
FIVE PEOPLE with ties to the fearsome MS-13 gang were arrested at gunpoint as they tried to abduct a 16-year-old boy in Long Island, authorities said Thursday.
Suffolk County detectives swooped in on the suspects — three known members of MS-13 and two associates of the gang — before they could carry out the murderous plot in Brentwood on Wednesday, Newsday reported.
“Those five individuals were attempting — intending — to abduct that boy and kill him,” Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini told reporters.
Four suspects — including a 17-year-old girl — are Brentwood High School students. Police flooded the area Tuesday after receiving complaints that a group of batwielding men in a van were targeting boys. THE DEATH of a Harlem man on Sept. 27 has been ruled a homicide, police said Thursday.
Neal Robinson, 57, was found unconscious in his second-floor apartment on W. 112th St. near Malcolm X Blvd. just after 11 p.m.
Medics rushed him to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died.
Cops said the city medical examiner’s office concluded he died of internal bleeding following a fight with a relative. Robinson also suffered rib fractures.
Detectives are questioning people close to Robinson, but they had not made any arrests late Thursday. of people under evacuation orders. The scale of the destruction is not yet fully clear.
A woman was found dead Thursday morning after a car crash on a roadway outside Santa Paula, which remains under a mandatory evacuation. Investigators were not immediately able to determine if her death was connected to the wildfires.
The Santa Anas, a yearly phenomenon in the region, came this year after a particularly dry autumn created a tinderbox that has now been set alight.
Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Water Resources, said climate change is believed to have influenced the recent cycle of droughts and record rainfall.