A federal indictment released on Wednesday details how Rollin’ 60s Crips gang leader Eugene “Big U” Henley extorted professional athletes and rappers.
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.
Henley (right) is pictured with late rapper Nipsey Hussle at a music industry event in Atlanta on Dec. 10, 2018.
Henley and 18 other members of the Rollin’ 60s Crips were indicted by federal agents on RICO charges.
Also arrested were “No Jumper” podcast co-host Zihirr Mitchell, aka “Bricc Baby (right), and Luce Cannon (not pictured).
According to the 107-page indictment, Henley reportedly extorted athletes, and celebrities to “check in” and pay money in exchange for protection when they visited his city.
“As part of the Big U Enterprise’s purported ‘control’ of Los Angeles, individuals, including professional athletes, musicians, and others, intending to conduct certain types of business in Los Angeles, were required to ‘check in’ with Henley prior to traveling to Los Angeles or engaging in certain activities to obtain ‘protection’ from the Big U Enterprise while in Los Angeles,” the indictment read.
Henley and his gang associates were “quite open in their threats of violence and intimidation if the victims did not pay the Big U Enterprise,” according to the indictment.
Henley hosted a podcast titled “Checc’n In,” the opening theme song explained, “When you hop off the plane, check in. Penthouse suite, check in. When your feet hit the street, check in. ‘Cause if not, shit get hot. You better check in.”
If celebrities refused to check in with Henley, they were threatened with violence.
The indictment describes an incident involving rappers Wiz Khalifa (left), T.I. Harris (right) and other artists who were booked to appear at a Los Angeles nightclub.
Henley demanded $30,000 cash from the promoter, plus 30% of the proceeds at the door. The rappers were no-shows, but Henley demanded the money anyway.
Henley reportedly said there were “going to be 5,000 Six-O’s in this muthaf*cker that’s going to be pulling up, and if we got to tear that muthaf*cker up, we going to tear it up. So be ready for that, be ready for that. Bring me my money!”
When the rappers didn’t show up, Henley and his associates took the promoter into a backroom in the club where they were paid $30,000.
In another incident described in the indictment, a professional boxer [A.B.] hosted a dice game for visiting NBA players.
According to a cooperating witness, A.B. and his associates fixed the dice game and cheated the NBA players out of millions of dollars using “teased” dice.
Following that game, Henley directed a group of Big U Enterprise associates to “rough up” A.B., who did not “check in” with Henley, and to get the money back from him on behalf of the NBA players.
Multiple persons involved in the incident who were interviewed by the feds, including former NBA players, confirmed that Henley was paid $100,000 for negotiating the return of the “debt”.
In another 2022 incident, NBA players “got into it” with boxer A.B. after A.B. cheated a current NBA All-Star out of $1.5 million and a former NBA All-Star out of $5 million.
Henley charged the NBA players $100,000 to get their money back from A.B.
The current and former NBA All-Star players were identified online as Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors and retired NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
Update: Henley went live this evening saying he’s on his way to turn himself in to the feds.
“Y’all don’t understand what the FBI do to Black men who try to help they community.” he said. “I ain’t been nothing but a help to the Black community… But I’m gonna go turn myself in… ’cause I ain’t did nothing.”
Big U makes a series of videos pleading his innocence before he turns himself in. pic.twitter.com/QFPqza3EOJ
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Read the indictment below.
