Juvenile to be Tried as Adult

     PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl is being charged as an
adult in the 2009 murder of a South Dakota teenager.
     South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Hanson County
States Attorney Jim Davies said Wednesday that Maricela N. Diaz, of
Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Guanajuato, Mexico, was charged with five
counts of murder, kidnapping and arson for the murder of
16-year-old Jasmine Guevara.
     Guevara's remains were discovered in the trunk of a vehicle on
Nov. 10, 2009. Officials say the Mitchell teenager was lured to the
scene under false pretenses, stabbed and left in the vehicle, which
was started on fire with lighter fluid.
     Twenty-one-year-old Alexander Salgado, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and
Guerrero, Mexico, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in August
2010 and was sentenced to life without parole.