Gang member gets prison time for lying

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An MS-13 member was sentenced to five years in prison for lying to a federal grand jury investigating the murder of a rival gang member.

Thirty-five-year-old Edin Ayala-Melgar, of Herndon, had been identified as a material witness in the May 2007 shooting death of Melvin Reyes, a member of the 18th Street gang, in Springfield.

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