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Prosecutor: Brothers Indicted In Slaying Of Newark Woman, 30
Two brothers have been indicted in connection with the murder of a 30-year-old woman from Newark, authorities said.
Gualberto Lebron, 35, was charged on Thursday with murdering Julia Vega, an ex-girlfriend and the mother of his children, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.
The grand jury also indicted his older brother, Gilberto Lebron, Jr., 36, for helping cover up Vega's murder, Stephens and Ambrose said.
On May 5, 2018, Gualberto Lebron assaulted the mother of his young children at her home in …
