Herelyn Barrientos was not happy to meet a member of his gang in the products section of his local supermarket.
A corpulent man with tattoos in the head and face, Barrientos was MS-13, a group notorious for wild murders. Federal prosecutors alleged that the Honduran citizen, nicknamed “Doctozo”, supplied Methamphetamine to the members of MS-13 in Los Angeles, who sold the drug and kicked the leader jailed to a cut.
Loaded with drug trafficking in 2023, Barrientos decided to light his gang and cooperation with the FBI. A judge signed his prison release, and Barrientos, 47, returned to southern Los Angeles.
The surveillance images showed MS-15 members who killed one of his, Herlyn Barrientos, who had become a FBI informant.
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Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that three members of the MS-13 reputation are accused of killing Barrientos on orders of gang leaders.
The Barrientos agreement was supposed to remain secret, but the FBI now says that the state of Barrientos as an informant was “widely” known, questioning why he still lived in his former neighborhood when he was killed on February 18.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
Just before his death, Barrientos called an FBI agent to inform to see a man with a gun, the manager wrote in a sworn statement. The agent said he was talking on the phone with Barrientos when he was shot dead.
“It is something terrible what happened to him,” said Michael Crain, a lawyer who represented Barrientos in his case of drug trafficking. Crain declined to comment.
The affidavit said the evidence made Barrientos kill because he was cooperating.
After his death, another informant who worked for the FBI called the leader of the MS-13 clique in Barrientos, who said that people above in the gang had instructed him: “They told me that I had to clean my garbage, do you understand?”
“That job cannot say no,” he said, according to the affidavit.
Around 7 pm on the last day of his life, Barrientos led to a higher supermarket in Figueroa and 91 streets, Joseph Carelli, a special FBI agent, wrote in an affidavit.
A black SUV followed Barrientos in the parking lot. Three men left the SUV and entered the store. In the product section, they seemed to exchange greetings with Barrientos, Carelli wrote, citing images of the store cameras.
Roberto Carlos Aguilar was photographed by the FBI who attended a commemorative service for a MS-13 member.
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One of the three men, identified by Carelli as Roberto Carlos Aguilar, moved away and began to make calls. Aguilar is a Salvadoran citizen who entered the United States illegally, a spokesman for the United States prosecutor in Los Angeles said.
Aguilar and Barrientos spoke in the parking lot of the grocery store for about 30 minutes, Carelli wrote. Aguilar obtained two calls duration of that moment that was for voice mail. One was from Dennis Anaya Urias, a permanent legal resident of the United States and a renowned member of the MS-13 Bagos Camarilla, Chrown to Carelli and the spokesman for the United States prosecutor’s office.
Barrientos was also from the Bagos Camarilla, a subset of MS-13 based in the neighborhood of the middle of the city, Carelli wrote.
The T-Mobile records showed that Urias’s phone was traveling from Koreatown to the upper supermarkets around 7:50 pm, when the surveillance images showed a gray Honda CR-V gray park in front of the store, according to the agent.
Aguilar, meanwhile, left and Barrientos called 911. He told the operator that he had seen a man armed with a gun. The suspect carried black, his face covered by a handkerchief, said Barrientos.
ROBERTO CARLOS AGUILAR OF THE ELECTRAL CENTRALS CLIQUE DE MS-13
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Barrientos called Carelli, his handler. A man whose face was covered only tried to shoot him, he told the agent, but the weapon did not shoot.
While talking, Carelli heard shots. Barrientos stopped responding. The agent listened to the sounds of the police and other lifeguards in the background, Hey.
A month later, the California road patrol officers found a burned CR-V burned in North Hollywood, Carelli wrote. The agent believed that the car was the only show in surveillance images conducted by the murderers of Barrientos.
Arrested on May 12, Urias, whose telephone records showed that he had traveled from Koreatown to South just before the shooting, told a prison informant that the order to kill Barrientos came “directly from the top,” Carelli wrote.
Uria said that he and another member of MS-13, Grevil Zelaya Santiago, received a call from Aguilar, who said he had found the “son of a whore,” according to the agent.
Urias said that he and Zelaya led to the CR-V towards South la, covered their faces and killed Barrientos to death, Carelli wrote.
The lawyers of Urias and Zelaya did not immediately respond to the request for comments. It was not clear who represented Aguilar.
The three defendants declared innocent of murder positions in extortion aid.
