Police on Thursday arrested
Wilfredo Alexander Barrera Martinez, 24, accused of raping a
29-year-old woman in Milan in September 2015, ANSA sources said.
Investigators said Martinez raped at gunpoint the
girlfriend of a drug dealer as revenge for being sold a dose of
"cocaine" that was actually baking soda.
Martinez, who is from El Salvador, has prior convictions as
well as an expulsion order dated August 30, 2015.
Known as "El Pajaro", he allegedly belongs to the Latin
American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
Police said Martinez had also had contact with some members
of a group that in recent months used a machete to threaten a
train conductor in Milan's Villapizzone station.
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