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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Yahoo
Hawaiian youth runner pays respects to fallen Lt. Credeur
HONOLULU, HI (KLFY)- Raiden Barrientos,14, of Honolulu, Hawaii ran one mile in honor of fallen Rayne Police Lieutenant Allen Noochie Credeur. The Hawaii teen carried a blue and white flag and ran the mile at the Honolulu Police Academy in honor of Credeur. Credeur died in the line of duty on May 6th. Barrientos, a youth runner with Running 4 Heroes, said these runs are a way of showing respect and gratitude for the sacrifice fallen officers made to protect their communities. 'It kind of felt like I had a bunch of emotions going through me while I was running, so I always think about what his close friends, family and his relatives think about what happened to them,' Barrientos said. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Arrest made in Rayne stabbing incident that led to officer being killed Barrientos said it brings him comfort to pray tribute to the families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving their community. 'It kind of makes me feel good when I run because it shows other people, their families, that I'm here for them and that their Yohana is here for them too,' Barrientos said. After the run, Barrientos paused to offer his condolences to Lieutenant Credeur's family and held a moment of silence in their honor. 'To the family of Allen Noochie Credeur, I give my heartfelt condolences to his fiancée Danielle, sisters Monica and Beatrice and his brother Joseph, I pray that this run will help you heal, and I want you know near and far, Hawaii is here to support you,' Barrientos said. Having supported fallen officers from a young age, Barrientos urges the youth to find the courage to step beyond their comfort zones. He says every run is a powerful way to honor those who gave their everything for their community. 'It shows a lot of support to the family members, their colleagues, all the people that knew that one person that you're running for, so you understand what they're going through and how this is your way of supporting them,' Barrientos said. If you are interested in having your child become a youth runner for Running 4 Heroes, click here. Hawaiian youth runner pays respects to fallen Lt. Credeur St. Martin deputies search for houseboat owner in waterway Calcasieu Parish sees two tragic incidents under investigation Trump's ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy Flash flood warning issued; Severe storms moving through parts of Acadiana Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
American Military News
24-05-2025
- American Military News
MS-13 gangsters in LA killed member who was FBI informant, feds say
LOS ANGELES — Herlyn Barrientos wasn't happy to run into a fellow member of his gang in the produce section of his local grocery store. A burly man with tattoos inked on his head and face, Barrientos was from MS-13, a group notorious for savage killings. Federal prosecutors alleged the Honduran national, nicknamed 'Doctorazo,' supplied methamphetamine to MS-13 members across Los Angeles, who sold the drug and kicked up a cut to the gang's imprisoned leader. Charged with drug trafficking in 2023, Barrientos decided to turn on his gang and cooperate with the FBI. A judge signed off on his release from jail, and Barrientos, 47, returned to South Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors on Friday announced three reputed MS-13 members are charged with killing Barrientos on the orders of gang leaders. Barrientos' deal was supposed to remain secret, but the FBI now says Barrientos' status as an informant was 'widely' known, calling into question why he was still living in his old neighborhood when he was killed on Feb. 18. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. Just before his death, Barrientos called an FBI agent to report seeing a man with a gun, the handler wrote in an affidavit. The agent said he was on the phone with Barrientos as he was shot to death. 'It's a terrible thing what happened to him,' said Michael Crain, an attorney who represented Barrientos in his drug trafficking case. Crain declined to comment further. The affidavit said evidence made clear Barrientos was killed because he was cooperating. After his death, another informant working for the FBI called the leader of Barrientos' MS-13 clique, who said people higher up in the gang had given him instructions: 'They told me I had to clean out my garbage, you understand?' 'That work you cannot say no to,' he said, according to the affidavit. Around 7 p.m. on the last day of his life, Barrientos drove to a Superior Grocers on Figueroa and 91st streets, Joseph Carelli, an FBI special agent, wrote in an affidavit. A black SUV followed Barrientos into the parking lot. Three men stepped out of the SUV and entered the store. In the produce section, they appeared to exchange greetings with Barrientos, Carelli wrote, citing footage from store cameras. One of the three men, identified by Carelli as Roberto Carlos Aguilar, walked away and started making calls. Aguilar is a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Aguilar and Barrientos talked in the parking lot of the grocery store for about 30 minutes, Carelli wrote. Aguilar got two calls during that time that went to voicemail. One was from Dennis Anaya Urias, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and reputed member of MS-13's Bagos clique, according to Carelli and the U.S. attorney's office spokesman. Barrientos was also from the Bagos clique, a subset of MS-13 that is based in the Mid-City neighborhood, Carelli wrote. T-Mobile records showed that Urias' phone traveled from Koreatown to the area of the Superior Grocers around 7:50 p.m., when surveillance footage showed a gray Honda CR-V parked across from the store, according to the agent. Aguilar, meanwhile, walked off and Barrientos called 911. He told the operator he'd seen a man armed with a pistol. The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, Barrientos said. Barrientos then called Carelli, his handler. A man whose face was covered just tried to shoot him, he told the agent, but the gun didn't go off. As they were talking, Carelli heard gunshots. Barrientos stopped responding. The agent heard the sounds of police and other first responders in the background, he wrote. A month later, California Highway Patrol officers found a burned CR-V in North Hollywood, Carelli wrote. The agent believed the car was the one shown in surveillance footage driven by Barrientos' killers. Arrested on May 12, Urias — whose phone records showed he'd traveled from Koreatown to South L.A. just before the shooting — told a jailhouse informant the order to kill Barrientos came 'straight from the top,' Carelli wrote. Urias said he and another MS-13 member, Grevil Zelaya Santiago, got a call from Aguilar, who said he'd found the 'son of a whore,' according to the agent. Urias said he and Zelaya drove in the CR-V to South L.A., covered their faces and shot Barrientos to death, Carelli wrote. Attorneys for Urias and Zelaya didn't immediately return request for comment. It wasn't clear who was representing Aguilar. All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder in aid of racketeering. _____ ©2025 Los Angeles Times. Visit Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
Confidential Informant Whacked by MS-13 in South L.A. While on Phone with FBI Handler
Three members of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 transnational street gang – one of them an illegal alien from El Salvador – have been hit with federal charges for carrying out a "greenlight," or murder contract on one of their own who flipped and was working for the FBI, a cold-blooded assassination that was heard live by the informant's Anaya Urias, 26, of South Los Angeles, and Grevil Zelaya Santiago, 25, of South Los Angeles, are charged via federal complaint with murder in aid of racketeering, a felony that carries a mandatory sentence of life in federal prison and a possible death sentence. Roberto Carlos Aguilar, 30, of South Los Angeles, is charged in a separate federal criminal complaint with murder in aid of racketeering, prosecutors say. The murder of Herlyn Barrientos, 47, who had been caught up in massive federal sweep targeting MS-13 meth dealers in 2023 and then began cooperating with the government, took place on February 18. When Barrientos was released from prison he began informing on members of his clique, which meant his "status as a government cooperator was well known by MS-13," prosecutors say. The notoriously savage gang reserves its most brutal bloodletting for informants, which is why Barrientos was terrified when he ran into his former criminal compatriots, Urias and Santiago, at a South Los Angeles grocery store. Barrientos was being hunted by the gang, another MS-13 member who agreed to cooperate with the FBI, and that the "greenlight" had been issued against Barrientos upon his release from prison, a clear indicator that he had struck a deal. Orders had been given to that MS-13 member to: "clean out my garbage, you understand?''That work you cannot say no to,' the gang member added, according to the FBI affidavit. MS-13 would get a chance to carry out that hit around 7 p.m. on Feb. 18 when Barrientos pulled into Superior Grocers at Figueroa and 91st Streets in South L.A. and went three men confronted Barrientos, who was wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet, in the produce section. Words were exchanged, the men walked off, according to the affidavit, and a panicked Barrientos first called 911 saying he had been confronted, telling the dispatcher: the man who had the pistol was about 20 years old, dressed in all black, with a handkerchief covering his face; and a second Latino man with long hair was also armed. Then he called his FBI handler, who heard the rat-a-tat of gunfire while his informant was on the phone. The other end went silent and the FBI agent stayed on the line calling Barrientos name until he heard the distant tone of police sirens."I heard through the telephone several gunshots and H.B. stopped responding to me. Soon after, I heard what sounded like police and emergency medical services arriving at H.B.'s location," the agent wrote. The death of an informant desperately calling for help strikes at the heart of law enforcement, especially one providing information on the deadly transnational gang MS-13. "During the evening of February 18, the victim made two telephone calls to authorities and said he was at a grocery store in South Los Angeles where MS-13 members had just tried to kill him," prosecutors concede. "He said he had been talking with MS-13 members when a man whose face was covered approached and tried to shoot him, but the gun did not fire.""At one point during the second telephone call, several gunshots were heard," by the FBI agent, prosecutors say. Carrying out a greenlight, especially against an informant, elevated the standing of the alleged hitmen, Aguilar, Urias and Santiago, according to court documents. MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, and the street gang is now comprised of tens of thousands of individuals in at least 10 states and several Central American countries, most notably El Salvador. In the mid-1990s, Mara Salvatrucha became associated with the Mexican Mafia and added the number 13 to its name. As MS-13's numbers swelled in Los Angeles and El Salvador, MS-13 members also traveled to, and settled in, other cities and areas in the United States, including New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Texas," federal prosecutors say. There have been major takedowns of the gang, including an infiltration by a cooperating informant in Boston that led to arrests at the gang's highest levels, and an active greenlight that includes the witness, his wife, and young baby. But the gang continues to flourish in southern California. The alleged MS-13 hitmen accused of assassinating Barrientos are being held without bail and will be back in a federal courtroom on June 3.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
MS-13 gangsters in L.A. killed member who was FBI informant, feds say
Herlyn Barrientos wasn't happy to run into a fellow member of his gang in the produce section of his local grocery store. A burly man with tattoos inked on his head and face, Barrientos was from MS-13, a group notorious for savage killings. Federal prosecutors alleged the Honduran national, nicknamed "Doctorazo," supplied methamphetamine to MS-13 members across Los Angeles, who sold the drug and kicked up a cut to the gang's imprisoned leader. Charged with drug trafficking in 2023, Barrientos decided to turn on his gang and cooperate with the FBI. A judge signed off on his release from jail, and Barrientos, 47, returned to South Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors on Friday announced three reputed MS-13 members are charged with killing Barrientos on the orders of gang leaders. Barrientos' deal was supposed to remain secret, but the FBI now says Barrientos' status as an informant was "widely" known, calling into question why he was still living in his old neighborhood when he was killed on Feb. 18. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. Just before his death, Barrientos called an FBI agent to report seeing a man with a gun, the handler wrote in an affidavit. The agent said he was on the phone with Barrientos as he was shot to death. Read more: A 'well-orchestrated execution': Mystery surrounds school official's killing at L.A. Live "It's a terrible thing what happened to him," said Michael Crain, an attorney who represented Barrientos in his drug trafficking case. Crain declined to comment further. The affidavit said evidence made clear Barrientos was killed because he was cooperating. After his death, another informant working for the FBI called the leader of Barrientos' MS-13 clique, who said people higher up in the gang had given him instructions: "They told me I had to clean out my garbage, you understand?" "That work you cannot say no to," he said, according to the affidavit. Around 7 p.m. on the last day of his life, Barrientos drove to a Superior Grocers on Figueroa and 91st streets, Joseph Carelli, an FBI special agent, wrote in an affidavit. A black SUV followed Barrientos into the parking lot. Three men stepped out of the SUV and entered the store. In the produce section, they appeared to exchange greetings with Barrientos, Carelli wrote, citing footage from store cameras. One of the three men, identified by Carelli as Roberto Carlos Aguilar, walked away and started making calls. Aguilar is a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Aguilar and Barrientos talked in the parking lot of the grocery store for about 30 minutes, Carelli wrote. Aguilar got two calls during that time that went to voicemail. One was from Dennis Anaya Urias, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and reputed member of MS-13's Bagos clique, according to Carelli and the U.S. attorney's office spokesman. Barrientos was also from the Bagos clique, a subset of MS-13 that is based in the Mid-City neighborhood, Carelli wrote. Read more: 'The street knows who did it': Authorities offer $10,000 reward in South L.A. killing T-Mobile records showed that Urias' phone traveled from Koreatown to the area of the Superior Grocers around 7:50 p.m., when surveillance footage showed a gray Honda CR-V park across from the store, according to the agent. Aguilar, meanwhile, walked off and Barrientos called 911. He told the operator he'd seen a man armed with a pistol. The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, Barrientos said. Barrientos then called Carelli, his handler. A man whose face was covered just tried to shoot him, he told the agent, but the gun didn't go off. As they were talking, Carelli heard gunshots. Barrientos stopped responding. The agent heard the sounds of police and other first responders in the background, he wrote. A month later, California Highway Patrol officers found a burned CR-V in North Hollywood, Carelli wrote. The agent believed the car was the one shown in surveillance footage driven by Barrientos' killers. Arrested on May 12, Urias — whose phone records showed he'd traveled from Koreatown to South L.A. just before the shooting — told a jailhouse informant the order to kill Barrientos came "straight from the top," Carelli wrote. Read more: L.A. man stabbed, shot and pushed off cliff lives to testify about alleged cartel hit Urias said he and another MS-13 member, Grevil Zelaya Santiago, got a call from Aguilar, who said he'd found the "son of a whore," according to the agent. Urias said he and Zelaya drove in the CR-V to South L.A., covered their faces and shot Barrientos to death, Carelli wrote. Attorneys for Urias and Zelaya didn't immediately return request for comment. It wasn't clear who was representing Aguilar. All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder in aid of racketeering. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
16-05-2025
- Los Angeles Times
MS-13 gangsters in L.A. killed member who was FBI informant, feds say
Herlyn Barrientos wasn't happy to run into a fellow member of his gang in the produce section of his local grocery store. A burly man with tattoos inked on his head and face, Barrientos was from MS-13, a group notorious for savage killings. Federal prosecutors alleged the Honduran national, nicknamed 'Doctorazo,' supplied methamphetamine to MS-13 members across Los Angeles, who sold the drug and kicked up a cut to the gang's imprisoned leader. Charged with drug trafficking in 2023, Barrientos decided to turn on his gang and cooperate with the FBI. A judge signed off on his release from jail, and Barrientos, 47, returned to South Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors on Friday announced three reputed MS-13 members are charged with killing Barrientos on the orders of gang leaders. Barrientos' deal was supposed to remain secret, but the FBI now says Barrientos' status as an informant was 'widely' known, calling into question why he was still living in his old neighborhood when he was killed on Feb. 18. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment. Just before his death, Barrientos called an FBI agent to report seeing a man with a gun, the handler wrote in an affidavit. The agent said he was on the phone with Barrientos as he was shot to death. 'It's a terrible thing what happened to him,' said Michael Crain, an attorney who represented Barrientos in his drug trafficking case. Crain declined to comment further. The affidavit said evidence made clear Barrientos was killed because he was cooperating. After his death, another informant working for the FBI called the leader of Barrientos' MS-13 clique, who said people higher up in the gang had given him instructions: 'They told me I had to clean out my garbage, you understand?' 'That work you cannot say no to,' he said, according to the affidavit. * Around 7 p.m. on the last day of his life, Barrientos drove to a Superior Grocers on Figueroa and 91st streets, Joseph Carelli, an FBI special agent, wrote in an affidavit. A black SUV followed Barrientos into the parking lot. Three men stepped out of the SUV and entered the store. In the produce section, they appeared to exchange greetings with Barrientos, Carelli wrote, citing footage from store cameras. One of the three men, identified by Carelli as Roberto Carlos Aguilar, walked away and started making calls. Aguilar is a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Aguilar and Barrientos talked in the parking lot of the grocery store for about 30 minutes, Carelli wrote. Aguilar got two calls during that time that went to voicemail. One was from Dennis Anaya Urias, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and reputed member of MS-13's Bagos clique, according to Carelli and the U.S. Attorney's office spokesman. Barrientos was also from the Bagos clique, a subset of MS-13 that is based in the Mid City neighborhood, Carelli wrote. T-Mobile records showed Urias' phone traveled from Koreatown to the area of the Superior Grocers around 7:50 p.m., when surveillance footage showed a grey Honda CR-V park across from the store, according to the agent. Aguilar, meanwhile, walked off and Barrientos called 911. He told the operator he'd seen a man armed with a pistol. The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, Barrientos said. Barrientos then called Carelli, his handler. A man whose face was covered just tried to shoot him, he told the agent, but the gun didn't go off. As they were talking, Carelli heard gunshots. Barrientos stopped responding. The agent heard the sounds of police and other first responders in the background, he wrote. A month later, California Highway Patrol officers found a burned CR-V in North Hollywood, Carelli wrote. The agent believed the car was the one shown in surveillance footage driven by Barrientos' killers. Arrested on May 12, Urias — whose phone records showed he'd traveled from Koreatown to South L.A. just before the shooting — told a jailhouse informant the order to kill Barrientos came 'straight from the top,' Carelli wrote. Urias said he and another MS-13 member, Grevil Zelaya Santiago, got a call from Aguilar, who said he'd found the 'son of a whore,' according to the agent. Urias said he and Zelaya drove in the CR-V to South L.A., covered their faces and shot Barrientos to death, Carelli wrote. Attorneys for Urias and Zelaya didn't immediately return request for comment. It wasn't clear who was representing Aguilar. All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder in aid of racketeering.
