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Rapper Swifty Blue was the target of a sprawling murder plot, prosecutors say.
(Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
By Matthew OrmsethStaff Writer
June 18, 2025 5:59 PM PT
According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accused Mexican Mafia member Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero issued an order in 2022 to kill Nelson Abrego, who performs under the name Swifty Blue.
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In the complaint, prosecutors described a sprawling conspiracy that played out over TikTok messages and recorded jail calls, drawing in prisoners from Kern County, jail inmates in downtown Los Angeles and gang members in Paramount, the southeast Los Angeles County city that both Quintero and Abrego call home.
Quintero, 49, was arrested Wednesday and has yet to enter a plea. It wasn’t clear from court records whether he has a lawyer. A longtime member of the Paramount Varrio gang, Quintero has served prison time for assault, manufacturing methamphetamine and false imprisonment, court records show.
Manuel Quintero, shown in 2014, has been identified by law enforcement officials as a member of the Mexican Mafia.
(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
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On New Year’s Eve in 2022, an alleged subordinate of Quintero, Giuseppe “Clever” Leyva, told an informant he’d notified gang members in Paramount, Compton and downtown L.A. that they had instructions to attack Abrego “on sight,” the complaint says.
Leyva, 34, is now in custody in an unrelated federal case that charges him with selling drugs and guns in Imperial County. He pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine in March and has yet to be sentenced. His attorney in the federal case didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
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19 charged in alleged Mexican Mafia conspiracy to kill L.A. rap artist
Rapper Swifty Blue was the target of a sprawling murder plot, prosecutors say.
(Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
By Matthew OrmsethStaff Writer
June 18, 2025 5:59 PM PT
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- Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero, a reputed member of the Mexican Mafia, put a hit on a rapper who was later stabbed in jail, prosecutors say.
According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accused Mexican Mafia member Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero issued an order in 2022 to kill Nelson Abrego, who performs under the name Swifty Blue.
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In the complaint, prosecutors described a sprawling conspiracy that played out over TikTok messages and recorded jail calls, drawing in prisoners from Kern County, jail inmates in downtown Los Angeles and gang members in Paramount, the southeast Los Angeles County city that both Quintero and Abrego call home.
Quintero, 49, was arrested Wednesday and has yet to enter a plea. It wasn’t clear from court records whether he has a lawyer. A longtime member of the Paramount Varrio gang, Quintero has served prison time for assault, manufacturing methamphetamine and false imprisonment, court records show.
Manuel Quintero, shown in 2014, has been identified by law enforcement officials as a member of the Mexican Mafia.
(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
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On New Year’s Eve in 2022, an alleged subordinate of Quintero, Giuseppe “Clever” Leyva, told an informant he’d notified gang members in Paramount, Compton and downtown L.A. that they had instructions to attack Abrego “on sight,” the complaint says.
Leyva, 34, is now in custody in an unrelated federal case that charges him with selling drugs and guns in Imperial County. He pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine in March and has yet to be sentenced. His attorney in the federal case didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
19 charged in alleged Mexican Mafia conspiracy to kill L.A. rap artist
Authorities charged a reputed member of the Mexican Mafia with plotting to kill Swifty Blue, a rapper who allegedly crossed the prison-based syndicate.
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