Police say O.W. murder was retaliation

A young man has been arrested and two minors detained in connection with a brutal kidnapping and rape in Orange Walk. Nineteen year old Mark Vega was charged today with murder, conspiracy to murder, rape and abduction. According to Orange Walk police the deceased, Roberto Herbert, had an altercation with Vega sometime on Sunday. Vega and three of his friends allegedly retaliated by ambushing Herbert while he was driving with a twenty-one year old female companion on the Chan Pine Ridge Road. The couple was taken to the Goat Hill area where the woman was gang raped and left in the trunk of the car. She managed to escape but Herbert, who was badly beaten in the incident, died in a Chetumal hospital on Tuesday.