Federal agents arrested more than a dozen members of the Rollin’ 60s faction of the Crips street gang in California and Virginia on Tuesday, the LA Times reports.
Authorities also arrested Eugene Henley Jr., aka “Big U,” accusing him of multiple violent crimes, including murder and extortion.
Big U is pictured above with late rapper Nipsey Hussle at a music industry event in Atlanta on Dec. 10, 2018.
Crips gang members are accused of operating a drug-trafficking ring that distributed large amounts of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and prescription Adderall, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Agents served more than a dozen search warrants on Tuesday morning across Southern California and Virginia in a drug sting operation that included IRS agents.
Federal prosecutors in San Diego said more than 150 law enforcement agents took down doors and raided homes on Tuesday as part of a drug sting dubbed “Operation Draw Down.”
19 defendants have been indicted on federal charges in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
One of the defendants is aspiring rapper and reputed Crips gang member Bricc Baby, real name Zihirr Mitchell.
Bricc Baby is a sidekick of popular streamer Adam22 of the “No Jumper” podcast.
DNA from Crips gang leader Eugene Henley Jr, aka Big U, was allegedly found under the fingernails of a dead football player-turned aspiring rapper named Rayshawn Williams.
Family members say Big U flew Williams from California to Las Vegas and put him up in an AirBnB to record tracks in January 2021.
However, Williams failed to show up at a Las Vegas recording studio for several days.
When Big U drove to the AirBnB on January 23, 2021 to confront Williams, the younger man claimed he didn’t have a ride to the studio.
Big U drove Williams to the studio on Jan. 24, 2021 and both men went inside. They stayed until after midnight. Big U then drove Williams back to the AirBnB around 2 a.m.
Williams went inside the house and returned to the car with his suitcase. His body was found in a ditch about 9 a.m. that same morning.
Sources say Williams was killed with a gunshot to the face because he dissed Big U in a rap song he recorded 5 days before his murder.
In the rap song, Williams referred to Big U as the “bro that makes some money,” and that he himself might get shot in the face “for thinkin’ shit funny.”
It’s unclear whether Big U had heard the diss lyrics prior to the killing, according to the indictment.
Big U is also believed to have ordered the murder of West Coast rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was fatally shot on March 31, 2019.
During an episode of “No Jumper” below, Luce Cannon (pictured above left) tells Wack 100 and Adam22 that Big U (pictured above right) told him that Nipsey was killed before the rapper was fatally shot in 2019.
