Two members of the gang MS-13 were convicted Tuesday of a brutal machete attack that left a man nearly decapitated seven years ago, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
Jose Rafael Andrade-Membreno, 29, and Edwin Diaz, 25, both of Mission Viejo, were convicted on one count each of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of lying in wait, conspiracy to commit murder and an enhancement of personally using a deadly weapon, the DA’s Office said in a news release.
Andrade-Membreno and Diaz, who were 22 and 18 years old, respectively, during the Oct. 1, 2018, attack, ambushed 25-year-old Marcos Morales as he was in a hot tub in Lake Forest with his girlfriend…