#LosAngeles County prosecutors on Wednesday charged 19 people with conspiring to m-rder a rapper who allegedly angered a member of the Mexican Mafia, a prison-based syndicate of Latino gang members.
According to a complaint filed in
#LosAngelesCounty Superior Court, accused
#MexicanMafia member Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero issued an order in 2022 to k-ll
#NelsonAbrego, who performs under the name
#SwiftyBlue.
In the complaint, prosecutors described a sprawling conspiracy that played out over TikTok messages and recorded jail calls, drawing in prisoners from
#KernCounty, jail inmates in downtown Los Angeles and gang members in Paramount, the southeast Los Angeles County city that both Quintero and Abrego call home.
Quintero, 49, was arrested Wednesday and has yet to enter a plea. It wasn’t clear from court records whether he has a lawyer. A longtime member of the Paramount Varrio gang, Quintero has served prison time for assault, manufacturing m-thamphetamine and false imprisonment, cour...