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Rogelio is 36 and goes by the name or Trampa." Tram- poso is Spanish for trickster cheat. Jose Alfredo, meanwhile, goes by the name "Sandoval." a Mexican citizens arrested Those were two of three Virginia residents arrested in the case. The third, Guadalupe Ibarra-Ayon, is a 30-year-old from Winchester and also a Mexican citizen, rather than an American citizen. In fact, out of all 10 people. arrested, only three are U.S.
citizens. Those are 30-year-old Adam Gunn I1, 29-year-old Kenneth Biermann-Ruz and 19-year-old Adam Bensaid, all from Martinsburg, West Virginia. The Bulletin could not get confirmation by press time if these Mexican citizens were in the United States legally or not. Out of the final three men arrested, federal officials said one of them is a suspected member of the MS-13 gang and the second is confirmed to be a member. Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco is a 34-yearold Martinsburg.
West Virginia resident and citizen of El Salvador. The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office said he was confirmed to bea member of the gang. Jose Santiago Cruz-Delcid, a 38-year-old resident of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, is suspected to be a member of the gang. Cruz-Delcid, who also goes by or "Truckito," is also a citizen of El Salvador.
The final two men arrested in the case were also Mexican citizens. Eduardo Hernandez Sanchez, also known as "Lalo, is a 42-year-old resident of West Virginia, while 34-year-old Rog- 5 elio Martinez-Rojas is resident of Martinsburg, West Virginia. investigation lasted nearly two years and involved the cooperative efforts of federal state and local law enforcement agencies," said United States Attorney Bill Powell. agencies worked together, were not worried about who got credit, combined resources and got big results. The task forces across the district, the federal, state and local law enforcement, the Assistant U.S.
Attorneys and our colleagues in county prosecutor offices across will continue to aggressively pursue all of those. who come into this district thinking they can distribute poison in our communities. Powell also drew attention to the fact that the MS-13 gang was involved with the case. This investigation has shown that violent gangs like MS-13 are attempting infiltrate our state. Powell said of West Virginia.
you are MS-13, do not come here. We know what you stand for, we will find you, and we will prosecute you for violations of the law. Powell said Wednesday's indictments were just one part of a larger operation. He added that there are multiple cases being examined as part of the joint investigation, I expect we will continue to work together towards successful conclusions in all of said Powell, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Shawn M.
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By HOLLY KOZELSKY MARTINSVILLE The New Orleans sound is going to jazz up Martinsville Friday night. The Jazz Band of Patrick Henry Community College will perform a concert with a variety of arrangements with the flavor of New Orleans-style jazz at 7 p.m. Friday. PHCC's Jazz Band is a selective ensemble. comprised of students from the community college's Music Specialization program as well as area musicians.
The aim of the program is to provide students with a competitive and performing musical outlet during their interim years between high school and a four year university Members include eight current and former band directors and music teachers, with the rest being high school dual enrollment or current college students, Lewis said. The songs will include the Saints Go MarchIn, "Bye Bye Blackbird," End Leaf Rag." "Blueberry Hill" and "South Rampart Street Parade, With the concert, the band will be "getting back to the root of the beginnings of what became jazz, band director Kevin Lewis The concert, will all those influences, Lewis said, "from the obvious Africanto Caribbean influence to European classical, brass band traditions, the blues and the long time traditions of parade." Music program PHCC's Music Specialization program was formed two and a half years ago. Kevin Jacques is the first student who taken the music classes as far as the jazz band each of the years he's been in PHCC, Lewis said. Jacques has been accepted into the music programs of two four year colleges, he added. The program includes Lewis' jazz class and a class by Deborah Burgess.
Students maytake the program through the Workforce Development Office of PHCC, making it a class for college students but for adults who are looking to continue their education musically and otherwise. Currently, 10 people, are enrolled in the Music Specialization program through PHCC or dual enrollment, he said. To carn an associate degree in General Studles Specialization: Music, a student is required to have 60 credits, according to PHCC's course catalog. They include academic courses and physical education, as well as 18 musicrelated courses. The music-related courses offered are Music Theory I and Music Theory IL, worth four credits each, both required; and electives, Music Appreciation worth three credits; and Jazz Ensemble, Applied Music Voice, Chorus Ensemble, Applied Keyboard, Band d' Ensemble, Applied Woodwinds, Applied Brass, Applied Percussion and Advanced The PHCC Jazz Band will Friday at PHOC.
The band is started in 2016. Applied Music- Voice, all worth one credit cach. The Music Specialization was approved in October 2015 and classes began the following January, said Greg Hodges, PHCCs Vice President for Academic and Student Success Services, who helped establish the program. A specialization is part of another associate degree program, including General Studies, in which a student completes at least 15 hours of electives particular, identified subject. By contrast, an associate degree in a particular major has 30 credit hours of coursework intl the major's subject, Hodges A college can create a specialization program in its own, Hodges said, but a college requires approval from the state to create a new associate program.
Approval is needed from the Virginia Com- perform a concert of New part of PHCC's Music munity Colleges System to offer a degree in a program and from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) for financial aid to be awarded for it, Hodges said. Twenty-two students would need to be enrolled in a specialization program in order to begin the process of applying for it to be a stand-alone degree program, Hodges said. Last year, the number of students the Music Specialization program was in the single digits," he said. This year it is slightly higher, but the exact number wasnot available by press time. Four part-time instruc.
tors teach the music classes, he said. If the program were to upgrade to a degree program, full instructors would be employed. "Any time we do a specialization, the end goal is a stand-alone degree, Hodges said. A specializa- contributed photo Orleans-style music at 7 p.m. Specialization program, which tion program us to test the waters" on a potential new program.
Whether or not it moves up to a full degree gram, we're been thrilled with the music program, Hodges said. "Init remains a specialization, we're able to do quite a lot with it. As well as taking the classes offered, students in the program perform publidy in Lewis's jazz conference concerts as well as Deborah Burgess's Chamber Music Recitals. The music program joins PHOC's art under Gerry Bannon and the Patriot Players theater program to benefit students as well as increase, cultural opportunities for the community as a whole, he added. The current band The band involves multiple local residents.
In the alto sax department are Merris Stambaugh of Henry County, a local physician; Charles Minter of Chatham, a former band director; Kevin Jacques, PHCC student; James Horne, Patrick County High School student and Ty Johnson, a Bassett High School student. Performing in the tenor sax section are David Donham, local musician and repairman and Matt Viola, choir director of Laurel Park Middle School. The baritone sax section includes former Army musician and Patrick County band director George Ray, along with Magna Vista High student Dylan Royal. Magna Vista band director Tim will be playing trumpet, along with Gretna teacher Andy Epton and PHCC student Nick Haley. On trombone, there is Martinsville High student Sam Penta, NCI student Brooke Mason, Bassett High student Sullivan Higgins, Franklin County band director Robb Shipp and Bassett High student McKinley Verlik.
Bassett High's Hunter Foley will play tuba, with Henry County music teacher Amy Stuart on bass and Theatre Works pianist Ann Nichols on piano: Nelson Edwards, former Henry County Schools band director will be on drums, with David Oakes, former guitar teacher at University of Southern California and studio musician on guitar. The concert will take place in PHCC's Walker Fine Arts and Student Center theater tomorrow night and admission will cost $5..
