Editor’s Be aware: (7/19/24) Since this story was printed in January 2022, Rios, Contreras, and Cisneros pleaded responsible to 1 rely every of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Rios and Cisneros have been each sentenced to 50 years in federal jail and Contreras was sentenced to 35 years in federal jail, in accordance with the US Legal professional’s Workplace. Grisham pleaded responsible to violent crime in assist of racketeering and is anticipated to be sentenced in September.
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Federal prosecutors charged three alleged gang members and one alleged gang affiliate Thursday within the deadly taking pictures of off-duty Los Angeles Police Division officer Fernando Arroyos throughout an tried theft.
Luis Alfredo De La Rosa Rios, 29, Ernesto Cisneros, 22, and Jesse Contreras, 34, are allegedly members of the F-13 gang, in accordance with a US Justice Division launch. Rio’s alleged girlfriend Haylee Marie Grisham, 18, was additionally charged.
In keeping with the criticism, Arroyos was house-hunting on Monday together with his girlfriend when a black pickup truck drove up. Rios and Cisneros pointed weapons at Arroyos and his girlfriend and eliminated gadgets from each, together with chains from Arroyos’ neck.
There was an change of gunfire between Arroyos and the 2 suspects, after which Arroyos collapsed and the 2 suspects fled, the discharge stated. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene and took Arroyos to a hospital the place he died.
The 4 defendants have been within the automobile and allegedly have been on the scene of the theft and the taking pictures, the criticism stated. They’re charged with violent crime in assist of racketeering, which carries a possible demise penalty and a minimal sentence of life in federal jail with out the opportunity of parole.
CNN has reached out to the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s workplace in an try and contact authorized illustration for the defendants and is awaiting a response.
Arroyos, 27, “was beginning a really promising profession,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore stated Tuesday. He was with the division for 3 years and assigned to the Wilshire Division.
“He discovered himself, after working a collection of days in patrol, to have a time off, having fun with it together with his girlfriend on a hunt for a home, a spot to stay, a spot to purchase and make investments on this metropolis and the way forward for this area,” Moore stated.
Arroyos is survived by his mom and stepfather.
“He was the one youngster, he had a promising future, a vibrant future that was taken away, viciously, over a road theft,” the chief stated.
F-13 is a “giant, multi-generational road gang that beforehand has been the topic of federal prosecutions, together with two giant racketeering instances,” the US Legal professional’s workplace stated in a information launch.
The information launch didn’t point out any connection between Arroyos and the suspects.