Federal authorities arrest alleged LA street gang leader Eugene ‘Big U’ Henley Jr

Investigators say he ran mafia-like' enterprise and is charged with crimes including drug trafficking

Federal authorities have taken into custody on Wednesday an alleged longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a mafia-like" criminal enterprise that included murder, human trafficking and extortion while he also worked as an entertainment entrepreneur, officials announced.

Eugene Henley Jr, known as Big U", was one of 18 members of the Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips charged in a federal complaint with a litany of federal crimes including drug trafficking, conspiracy and firearms offenses, the United States attorney's office said in a statement.