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Gang members, police officer arrested in filmmaker's slaying

The doubtable accused of acclimation the slaying, Nelson Lazo Rivera, was already in prison, according to a account Wednesday from the agency.Officials gave no motive for the annihilation and did not say why Lazo Rivera is incarcerated. El Diario de Hoy bi-weekly said he is in bastille for several murders, including three slayings in 2003 accepted as the annihilation of Samcap.Poveda, 53, had afresh accomplished a documentary about a agitated artery gang, allotment of the Mara 18 bent accumulation in El Salvador. He was begin attempt to afterlife September 2 in the boondocks of Tonacatepeque, about 10 afar northeast of the capital, San Salvador, authorities said.Four of the suspects are associates of the aforementioned Mara 18 assemblage that was the accountable of Poveda's film, the advocate general's appointment said. Authorities articular them as Calixto Rigoberto Escobar (known as Toro), Jose Alejandro Melara (El Puma), Roberto Luis Romero (Tiger), and Miguel Angel Rosa (El Cholo).