MS-13 gangstster in a member killed, which was FBI-Informant, says La Feds, says La Feds

Herlyn Barrientos did not hit happy to meet a member of his gang in the product section of his local grocery store.

Barrientos, a stocky man with tattoos on the head and face, came from MS-13, a group that was calmed down for wild murders. The Federal Prosecutor claimed that the Honduran National, the nickname “Doctorazo”, provided MS-13 members in Los Angeles, who sold the drug and sold the gang's detained leader, Methamphetamine with the nickname Los Angeles with the nickname.

Barrientos was charged with drug trafficking in 2023 and decided to turn on his gang and work with the FBI. A judge signed his release from prison, and Barrientos, 47, returned to South Los Angeles.

The Federal Prosecutor's office announced on Friday that three renowned MS-13 members are charged with murder of barrios at the command of the gang leaders.

Barrientos 'deal should remain secret, but the FBI now says that Barrientos' status as an informant is “widely” known and called why he was still alive in his old neighborhood when he was killed on February 18.

An FBI spokeswoman rejected a statement.

Shortly before his death, Barrientos called an FBI agent to see a man with a weapon, the handler wrote in an affidavit. The agent said that he was on the phone with Barrientos when he was shot.

“It is a terrible thing that happened to him,” said Michael Crain, a lawyer who represented Barrientos in his case of drug trafficking. Crain declined to continue commenting.

The affidavit said that the evidence of clear accesses were killed because he cooperated.

After his death, another informant who worked for the FBI called the leader of Barrientos' MS-13 Clique, who said the people in the gang gave him instructions: “You told me that I had to clear my garbage, do you understand?”

“You can't say this work no,” he said according to an affidavit.

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Around 7 p.m. on the last day of his life, Barrientos drove to a superior food dealer in Figueroa and 91st Street, Joseph Carelli, an FBI specialist agent, wrote in an affidavit.

A black SUV followed BarriStos to the parking lot. Three men rose from the SUV and entered the shop. In the product department, they seemed to exchange greetings with BarriStos, wrote Carelli and cited film material from shop cameras.

One of the three men identified by Carelli as Roberto Carlos Aguilar went away and started making calls. Aguilar is a Salvadoran citizen who illegally entered the United States, said a spokesman for the US public prosecutor in Los Angeles.

Aguilar and Barrientos spoke about 30 minutes in the parking lot of the grocery store, wrote Carelli. Aguilar received two calls during this time that went to VoiceMail. One came from Dennis Anaya Urias, a legal permanent resident of the United States and a respected member of MS-13 from Bagos Clique, according to Carelli and the spokesman for the US public prosecutor.

Barrientos also came from the Bagos Clique, a sub-group of MS-13, which is based in Mid City's neighborhood, wrote Carelli.

T-Mobile recordings showed that Urias' telephone traveled from Koreatown to the superior food dealer from Koreatown at around 7.50 p.m. when the surveillance material showed a gray Honda-Cr-V park to the shop, according to the agent.

Aguilar meanwhile went away and Barrientos called 911. He told the operator that he saw a man armed with a pistol. The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, said Barrientos.

Barrientos then called Carelli, his handler. A man whose face was covered was trying to shoot him, he told the agent, but the weapon didn't go.

As they spoke, Carelli heard shots. Barrientos stopped reacting. The agent heard the noises of the police and other first aiders in the background, he wrote.

A month later, California Highway Patrol Officers found a burned CR-V in North Hollywood, wrote Carelli. The agent believed that the car was shown in surveillance material, which was driven by Barrientos' murderer.

Urias, whose telephone recordings were arrested on May 12, told a Jailhouse -Informant that the command for killing BarriStos “directly from above”, wrote Carelli.

Urias said he and another MS-13 member, Grevil Zelaya Santiago, had received a call from Aguilar, who said he had found the “son of a whore”, according to the agent.

Urias said he and Zelaya drove to South La in the CR-V, covered their faces and shot barrios to death, wrote Carelli.

Lawyers for Urias and Zelaya did not immediately return to comment. It was not clear who represented aguilar.

All three defendants have not guilty to be charged with murder in the extortion.