By Richard Winton | LA Times
FBI agents and Los Angeles County deputies fanned out across the city early Tuesday, raiding 30 homes linked to the South L.A. gang Florencia 13, which was responsible for the 2022 killing of a Los Angeles police officer.
Hours after the arrest of dozens of Los Angeles gang members, prosecutors unsealed indictments charging 37 people associated with Florencia 13 alleging a series of crimes, including fentanyl trafficking, extortion and three slayings — including that of a man beaten to death outside a bar in the gang’s “territory.”
The gang, which dates back some 70 years in South L.A., gained notoriety following the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos, who was off-duty and house-hunting with his girlfriend when they were targeted in an armed robbery on Jan. 10, 2022.
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