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Second man arrested following northwest Indiana slayings

KENTLAND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Indiana have made another arrest in the slayings of three people found stabbed to death last weekend.

On Wednesday, Newton County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Drinski said 24-year-old Derrick Cardosi of Cedar Lake was arrested Tuesday night on a warrant for conspiracy to commit murder and assisting a criminal. Drinski says Cardosi is in custody and is scheduled to be arraigned on September 7.

On Monday, authorities said 24-year-old Sebastian M. Wedding of Cedar Lake was arrested in connection with the killings of two men and a woman whose bodies were found Sunday night in a home in Sumava Resorts, an unincorporated community about 35 miles south of Gary. He is being held on a preliminary charge of murder and is also scheduled to be arraigned September 7.

RELATED: Autopsies show 3 in northwestern Indiana died of multiple stab wounds

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