Henry “Silent” Valenzuela, 27, of Bell Gardens, told an ICE undercover investigator that he is a hit man for a Tijuana-based drug cartel, officials said.
The arrests culminated a nine-month investigation of the Barrio Evil 13 street gang by ICE, which was assisted in the arrests by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Bell, Huntington Park, Vernon and Long Beach police departments.
“This is an ongoing investigation,” Kozak said. “We are concerned about the source origin of these weapons and the distribution network. The size of their stockpile implies that they were supplying other gangs.”
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