An accused narco queen and her boyfriend were the alleged masterminds behinda drug ring that funneled fentanyl and methamphetamineinto crime-ridden MacArthur Park, bombshell charges revealed.
Mallaly Moreno-Lopez and beau Jackson Tarfur allegedly controlled astring of storefronts along Alvarado Streeton the park’s perimeter that were responsible for the lion’s share of illegal narcotics feeding desperate addicts that flooded the park daily, prosecutors said.
A swarm of Drug Enforcement Agency officers raided the couple’s South Los Angeles home on Wednesday as part of a broader operation that led to nearly 40 arrests and the recovery of millions of dollars in potentially deadly drugs.
Both have been hit with federal charges of drug possession and distribution, and they face 10 years to life in prison.
Investigators say they caught the couple delivering narcotics to local storefronts for street-level dealers to sell, according to a criminal complaint.
“Moreno-Lopez, and her boyfriend, Jackson Tarfur, were hand-delivering drugs to the Alvarado Corridor here across from MacArthur Park,” LA’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, said at the park on Wednesday. “And they were storing and stashing the drugs at the business, as you see across the street.”
The pair is accused of working for thebrutal 18th Street gang, a violent, transnational criminal organization thousands of members involved in drug trafficking, extortion and murder.
Moreno-Lopez was born into the gang and bothher parents are activein the group, prosecutors said. Her mother was arrested during another raid in March, authorities said.
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In one brazen move, investigators watched as the couple allegedly met an associate at a Food4Less to transfer a brown Nike bag stuffed with nearly 1,000 grams of fentanyl and meth, the complaint said.
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