Eduardo Escobedo, nicknamed El Mago, 39, a convicted drug trafficker linked to a son of El Chapo was reportedly gunned down in Willowbrook. Raised in East Los Angeles, Escobedo rose to become the primary distributor of marijuana in Los Angeles for Guzman’s oldest son, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, a prosecutor said at a 2014 detention hearing. Authorities seized 2.7 tons of cannabis from a courier working for Escobedo, according to the prosecutor. In 2008, police found a bullet-riddled silver Bentley Continental GT crashed on the center median of the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. He baptized the child of Guzman Salazar, the kingpin’s son, and bought his “compadre” a white Lamborghini Huracan for his birthday.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 26, 2023 14:05 UTC