More than two years after he allegedly shot a man dead on a Village de l’Est soccer field, a Bronx man is in jail accused of what authorities describe as a retaliatory killing stemming from gang activity in New York.
Manuel Diaz, 34, was booked into Orleans Justice Center on Feb. 22 on second-degree murder, armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and illegal transmission of monetary funds, court records show.
Diaz is a “key member” of a New York-based criminal organization involved in murder, armed robberies and smuggling stolen goods that has spread into New Orleans, according to a motion by the State of Louisiana seeking to hold him without bond…