Eugene “Big U” Henley, a Los Angeles Crips leader turned gang interventionist, allegedly solicited fellow jail inmates to murder or seriously injure a federal witness to prevent them from testifying at trial against him and his associates, according to a new indictment returned Wednesday.

The second, superseding indictment against Henley, following his arrest last year on federal racketeering charges, contains charges on seven additional felonies, including solicitation to commit a crime of violence and witness tampering, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Henley, 59, had already been accused of murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion and fraud.

Henley and six other defendants charged in the case are scheduled to go to trial in February 2027. Henley has previously pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

If convicted, Henley could face up to life in prison for the racketeering conspiracy count. The newly added witness tampering counts carry an additional statutory maximum of life in prison.

Henley’s attorney declined to comment on the new charges. Before turning himself in last year, Henley made videos denying the accusations against him saying, “I ain’t did nothing.”

“I ain’t been nothing but a help to our community,” Henley said. “This the price of being Black and trying to help somebody, trying to help your community and do what you can. You just guilty because somebody else don’t like you.”

According to the new indictment, Henley, who has been in federal custody since March 2025, in June asked about the layout of a housing unit where he believed the victim was located and then allegedly offered to pay two inmates to kill or harm the person.

The new indictment includes allegations that in 2014 Henley and his associates assaulted and later chased a Grammy-winning recording artist through Los Angeles International Airport to collect a debt and for failing to show respect, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. Although the artist is only identified by his initials, N.D.C, The Times was able to identify him through social media and news reports as Nayvadius DeMun Cash, the rapper known professionally as “Future.”

Federal prosecutors also provided a window into Henley’s relationship with rapper Nipsey Hussle, a fellow Rollin’ 60s Crip whose career he helped launch. Hussle lived with Henley’s family and recorded some of his first tracks in their downstairs studio, according to a 2023 Times article.

According to the indictment, Henley in 2011 requested music equipment in Hussle’s possession, which led to a dispute. Around that time, Hussle “released a “diss song” entitled “U Don’t Got a Clue,” which “defendant HENLEY perceived to be about and targeting defendant HENLEY.”

After the song’s release, Henley allegedly went to “discipline” Hussle for the rap song, but Hussle’s brother “refused to allow” it, according to the indictment.

Hussle was killed in 2019 by a fellow member of the Rollin’ 60s.

Federal authorities have likened Henley’s “Big U Enterprise” to a “mafia-like organization” that relied on his “stature and long-standing association with the Rollin’ 60s and other street gangs to intimidate businesses and individuals” in L.A.

Following a yearslong FBI investigation, federal authorities last year accused Henley of kidnapping and fatally shooting a young rapper in the face and leaving his body in the Las Vegas desert over perceived disrespect as well as directing the robbery of an unlicensed L.A. marijuana dispensary that had stopped making extortion payments.

Henley also allegedly defrauded companies, donors, athletes and celebrities — including NBA star Draymond Green and Lakers legend Shaquille O’Neal — persuading them to donate to his charities and later allegedly transferring the money to his personal bank accounts.

La Junta Directiva del FC Barcelona se ha reunido hoy, miércoles 29 de julio, en sesión ordinaria en las instalaciones del Club, bajo la presidencia del vicepresidente primero, Rafael Yuste, en ausencia del presidente Joan Laporta, quien ha excusado su asistencia.

Durante la reunión se ha tratado, como uno de los puntos del orden del día, la posibilidad de celebrar una única Asamblea Ordinaria de Socios y Socias Compromisarios, que habitualmente tiene lugar durante el mes de octubre, incluyendo también aquellos asuntos previstos para la Asamblea Extraordinaria que requieren la aprobación de los socios y socias compromisarios.

Para hacerlo posible, el Club está adelantando el proceso de cierre de las cuentas correspondientes a la temporada 2025-26, así como la elaboración del presupuesto de la temporada 2026-27, con el objetivo de incluirlo todo en un mismo orden del día, en una única convocatoria y una única Asamblea, la cual previsiblemente se pueda celebrar el mes de septiembre.

Esta fórmula supondría una mayor comodidad para los socios y socias compromisarios y, al mismo tiempo, un importante ahorro de recursos organizativos y económicos.

En este sentido, durante la reunión de hoy, la Junta Directiva ha conocido una primera estimación del cierre económico de la temporada. Las cuentas se encuentran actualmente en fase de revisión y validación por parte del auditor y, una vez finalice este proceso, el Club podrá convocar la Asamblea Ordinaria y, si se dan las condiciones para ello, hacerla coincidir con la Asamblea Extraordinaria.

La decisión definitiva se tomará próximamente. El objetivo del Club es que esta Asamblea se celebre durante el mes de septiembre y, siempre que sea posible, coincida con un día de partido.

Por otra parte, en lo que respecta al área deportiva, la Junta Directiva está ultimando la celebración de un partido amistoso del primer equipo masculino el próximo 15 de agosto en Tánger (Marruecos), frente a un equipo local.

Asimismo, la Junta también ha tratado la posibilidad de que el Barça Femenino dispute un partido amistoso el mismo 15 de agosto frente al Manchester City en el estadio del conjunto inglés.

La Junta Directiva también ha repasado la situación de las diferentes áreas deportivas del Club y ha sido informada de la inminente incorporación de una nueva jugadora al primer equipo de fútbol femenino, que será comunicada una vez se formalice definitivamente la operación.

En el ámbito deportivo, la Junta también ha ratificado el proyecto de unificación de la estructura del Barça Atlètic con la del primer equipo, con el objetivo de lograr una gestión más ágil, eficiente y coordinada desde los puntos de vista deportivo, económico y operativo.

Por último, la Junta Directiva ha sido informada de la evolución de las obras del Spotify Camp Nou y de los trabajos previstos de cara al inicio de la próxima temporada.

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An Overland couple who had recently returned to Guatemala was found bound and shot to death in a sugarcane field.

Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz were killed weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.

Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala. The child showed signs of dehydration and was taken to a medical center, where she is recovering, according to Guatemalan news outlet ABC Stereo.

Guatemala’s National Civil Police told local news outlets that Pérez Paz, 43, and González de la Cruz, 25, had been gagged and had their hands and feet bound. Authorities said both showed signs of physical trauma. Prosecutors are investigating the killings.

“I felt that they took the thing I wanted most,” said Rolando Pérez Paz, Pérez Paz’s 51-year-old brother, in an interview with STLPR. “I felt a huge pain because it was my brother, my sister-in-law — people that wanted to work, to fight.”

The couple was reported missing July 20 after leaving home to register a motorcycle in a nearby town, according to Rolando Perez Paz. The deaths followed several months of struggles with financial hardships, run-ins with the federal government and violence.

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In the early hours one morning last April, Pérez Paz was driving his 51-year-old brother, Rolando Pérez Paz, to their roofing jobs when they were stopped near their home by ICE.

A group of agents exited an unmarked vehicle and swarmed them, taking them out of their white work van and later putting them in handcuffs and shackles before taking them to the Phelps County Jail, since-deported Rolando Pérez Paz told St. Louis Public Radio on Monday from his home in Guatemala.

The agents didn’t explain much other than telling him there wasn’t a warrant out for their arrests but that they were being arrested for entering the county illegally and that they would be deported.

The two men were in the country without legal status, fleeing violence and poverty from the Central American country, said Rolando Perez Paz.

An ICE spokesperson confirmed the stop and arrest in Overland when agents located and arrested Pérez Paz for “being unlawfully present in the United States.”

The spokesperson said he was convicted twice for drunken driving in Overland and put on four years’ probation, but no records appear in the Missouri court database to support that account. ICE also pointed to a 2010 open-container charge against Pérez Paz in Palm Beach, Florida — an ordinance violation that prosecutors dropped.

“Since Day One, DHS law enforcement has been delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists,” the spokesperson wrote in a late Monday email. “ICE remains committed to removing criminal aliens from our communities by enforcing immigration laws and maintaining the integrity of our borders.”

Overland Police Chief Andy Mackey said the department was not involved in the two men’s stop, detention and deportation last year. In an unrelated May 2024 incident, court records show Pérez Paz had pleaded guilty to driving without a valid driver’s license after being pulled over by Overland police and subsequently paid the roughly $200 fine.

When reached by phone on Monday, David Diamond, Pérez Paz’s Brentwood-based traffic attorney listed on the 2024 court docket, declined to answer questions about his former client and did not invoke attorney-client privilege — an ethical guideline to keep many conversations confidential with clients. When STLPR informed Diamond that Pérez Paz had been shot and killed alongside his wife, he said it “doesn’t matter” before hanging up.

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González de la Cruz remained in Overland, where she gave birth to the couple’s third daughter in June 2025. She worked two manual labor jobs while raising their children but eventually decided to return to Guatemala with her girls as financial pressures mounted — and grew increasingly fearful that she would be detained and separated from them despite working through an active asylum case, according to organizers with Fuerza, a St. Louis-based immigrant rights group she was a part of.

“I think this is indicative of the problem and the broken process,” said Zachary Mueller, a Kansas City-based strategist at States at the Core, a nonprofit helping local communities fight authoritarianism and political violence. “It belies that idea that any of this is about public safety because now two people are dead and three young girls are without parents for the rest of their lives.”

Rolando Pérez Paz said he is caring for Nixon and Glendy’s three young daughters in Guatemala but has had difficulty explaining the deaths to them.

“If immigration hadn’t picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn’t be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn’t see that. It makes no difference to them.”

A spokesperson for ICE, Guatemala’s National Civil Police and Overland Mayor Marty Little did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A candlelight vigil for the couple is planned at Overland City Hall at 6 p.m. Aug. 2.

This story has been updated to include comments from ICE and additional information related to a conversation with traffic attorney David Diamond.