The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged 19 alleged members and associates of the Mexican Mafia with allegedly conspiring to murder a well-known rapper, the FBI announced on June 18.

In a statement, the FBI said the LA County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau and the FBI’s San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Task Force have been investigating the Mexican Mafia’s alleged attempts to locate and murder the rapper as part of a conspiracy that began in December 2022.

The FBI did not identify the rapper in the statement but said he was “popular on social media.”

The plan was allegedly coordinated by a member of the Mexican Mafia and several high-ranking associates imprisoned in the LA County Jail, in response to perceived infractions against the criminal organization, the FBI said.

“The defendants engaged in a criminal conspiracy to murder an individual by acting as rogue judges, juries, and executioners,” said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

“Today’s successful operation resulting in state charges is just the latest blow to the Mexican Mafia hierarchy that operates within the prison system and which threatens jail workers, fellow inmates, and spills over into the streets of our communities.”

Davis added that the successful operation was a direct result of law enforcement partners working cooperatively at all levels of government.

According to investigators and deputy district attorneys who filed the case, a Mexican Mafia member placed the rapper on a “green list,” thus sanctioning his murder.

An armed associate allegedly went to his family’s home to find and kill him after another associate learned of his location by following him home.

After learning the victim had been arrested and was incarcerated at the Los Angeles County Jail, Mexican Mafia associates in the jail allegedly attacked him with a weapon.

The rapper was transported to a hospital where he underwent treatment for his injuries.

When “shotcallers”—those in leadership positions for the Mexican Mafia—learned he had survived the attack, they allegedly formed a new plan to find and kill him.

The rapper was released from jail days later before he could be attacked again, but associates of the criminal organization allegedly continued to try to find and kill him by following his social media.

In total, 18 of the alleged Mexican Mafia members have been apprehended, of which 11 were already incarcerated on unrelated charges, the FBI said.

One of the suspects, Joshua Euan, 37, has yet to be detained, and the FBI said he is “considered a fugitive and is being sought by Task Force members.”

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.

“We will not tolerate organized crime using our jails and prisons as a haven for violence,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.

Hochman added that when individuals on the outside conspire with incarcerated criminals to carry out attacks, “they threaten the safety and integrity of our correctional system.”

“That criminal activity may scale over prison walls, but I will make it my mission to ensure it ends at the front door, with an arrest,” Hochman said. “Every person in custody should be able to serve their time without fear of being targeted.”

The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI for further comment.