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Two alleged Pomona gang members have been ordered to stand trial for the December murder of Miguel Martin.Jose Luis Gutierrez, 16, is accused of shooting and killing Martin on Dec. 5 in the parking lot of Guadalajara Market, 1134 W. Mission Blvd. Prosecutors have charged Gutierrez as an adult.Albert Matthew Sandoval, 21, is accused of dropping off Gutierrez near the market for the purposes of killing Martin, 24.After hearing testimony from five witnesses on Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in Pomona Superior Court, Judge Charles Horan ruled that Gutierrez and Sandoval must stand trial on murder charges.

Alleged Mexican Mafia member convicted in May of conspiring to kill a veteran gang member was denied a new trial on Tuesday by a Pomona Superior Court judge. Julio Ponce Felix Jr., 35, was accused by prosecutors of arranging details of the hit and supplying the gun to be used to kill Frankie Buelna, 61. The gang believed Buelna, a fellow Mexican Mafia member, was conducting criminal gang activities outside his authorized neighborhood, prosecutors said. Prosecutors charged Felix and three other alleged gang members in the plot to kill Buelna, which was foiled in 2005 by Pomona police who were monitoring phone conversations between the men. Buelna was later shot and killed in November 2006 at Characters Sports Bar in downtown Pomona. The 2006 killing remains unsolved, and investigators said they are unsure whether it is related to Buelna's gang activities. All four men charged in the initial conspiracy were in jail awaiting trial at the time of the killing. Felix's defense attorn...