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Entertainment entrepreneur and leader of LA’s Rollin’ 60s Crips street gang, Big U, has been charged with a series of racketeering crimes.
Eugene Henley Jr., better known as Big U, has been charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Los Angeles’ FOX 11 reports Henley surrendered to the police after learning of his indictment. This followed a video he shared on social media in which he stated his intention to turn himself in.
“I’m going to turn myself in and see what’s going on,” said Henley in a video posted to social media. “They’re calling me a fugitive. They just raided all my houses.”
The 58-year-old Henley is an entertainment entrepreneur and a longtime leader of the South Los Angeles-based Rollin’ 60s set of the Crips street gang. He has been charged in a federal complaint with allegations he ran a criminal enterprise that committed racketeering crimes, including extortion, human trafficking, fraud, and murder.
Alongside Henley, two other alleged members of the enterprise were arrested this week: 59-year-old Sylvester “Vey” Robinson, and 50-year-old Mark “Bear Claw” Martin. Both were arrested in connection with the same criminal complaint in which Henley is charged.
Henley went on to accuse Cash “Wack 100” Jones of working with the FBI against him. Jones is a hip-hop commentator and record executive who has managed artists including 6ix9ine.
“If you had something against a Black man, handle it with a Black man in the streets,” said Henley. “Wack said 100 times he was gonna take my contracts. He working with the FBI.”
Henley further alleged that the FBI told celebrities to stop giving him money. “Y’all don’t understand what the FBI do to Black men who try to help their community.”
Meanwhile, Wack 100 has responded to Big U’s accusations that he is responsible for the federal indictments handed down against the alleged members of the Rollin’ 60s.
“Shit ain’t got nothing to do with [me!]” he said, asserting it was obvious that Henley and his alleged cohorts were on the FBI’s radar. “‘How did they know they was gonna raid my house?’” he asked, mocking Henley. “Oh, you a goofy— How the f**k you didn’t know?”
Law enforcement has arrested nearly a dozen Rollin’ 60s members and associates in the past two days who are accused of various federal crimes. Four were already in custody, and officials are seeking the whereabouts of five other defendants.
