Four More Arrests in Stabbing Homicide

Four more arrests have been made in the homicide that occurred in Manassas on Aug. 17, 2014.

Juan Francisco Guevara, Mario Antonio Portillo and a 17-year-old male juvenile were located and arrested without incident on the evening of Aug. 20, 2014 in Baltimore County, Maryland with the assistance of the United States Marshals Service, Immigration Customs Enforcement and Baltimore County Police.

Argenis Sandoval was captured Friday afternoon by the Manassas City Police Department with the assistance of the Northern Virginia Gang Taskforce, U.S. Marshals Service and Prince William County Police.

All face murder charges.

The body of Cesar Benjamin Contreras, 26, of Manassas, was found Sunday morning. He’d been wrapped in a rug and left beside a dumpster. The state medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, with a cause of multiple stab wounds.

“Investigation indicates that this was not a random attack and that the suspects involved may be connected with a criminal street gang,” according to a MCPD release earlier this week.

Ludwig Ulises Mena Romero, 20, of the 9700 block of Main Street, Manassas, was arrested Monday.

Jose Rafael Ramierz Lopez, 18, of the 3500 block of Center Street NW, Washington, D.C., was arrested Wednesday.

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