An MS-13 associate was convicted of first-degree murder last week in the savage 2023 slaying of a teenage girl who was lured from New Jersey to Maryland before her body was dumped in a freshly dug grave.

The skeletal remains of Rosa Sánchez Merino, 18, were found four months after her murder on the orders of the bloodthirsty MS-13 gang in Olney, MD, some 200 miles from where she was taken in Elizabeth, NJ, Fox 5 DC reported .

Iris Alonzo-Salgado, 24, was found guilty on Friday of first-degree murder, conspiracy and gang participation resulting in death after waiving her right to a jury during her trial at Montgomery County Circuit Court, MD.

Alonzo-Salgado and Rivera-Delgado had taken Sánchez Merino to New Jersey to visit friends and family, according to a statement from the Montgo

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