Lead Defendant in Whittier-Based Quiet Village Racketeering Case Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges, Admits to 2022 Gun Murder
August 18, 2025 – SANTA ANA, CA – A shot caller in the Whittier-based Quiet Village (QV) street gang pleaded guilty on 
Wednesday to federal charges, including shooting a woman to death while attempting to murder a law enforcement source in Commerce in March 2022 and the attempted murder of a rival gang member in El Monte earlier that year.
Image by Ray Shrewsberry • Ray_Shrewsberry from Pixabay
Chase Carrillo, 36, a.k.a. “Sicko,” of Santa Fe Springs, the lead defendant in a 16-count superseding indictment targeting the gang, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and one count of using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, resulting in death. He has been in federal custody since July 2023.
According to his plea agreement, Carrillo participated in Quiet Village gang activities from at least 2014 until June 2023, including his assault of two California corrections officers while he was serving a sentence in state prison in September 2014. The plea agreement further outlines the history of QV and its close alliance with another street gang, Whittier Varrio Locos (WVL).
On January 13, 2022, Carrillo got involved in an argument with a rival gang member in El Monte. That altercation ended with Carrillo and a co-conspirator shooting the rival gangster, who was struck eight to 10 times by bullets and was severely wounded.
In early March 2022, a co-conspirator obtained a police report about the incident that named a victim identified in court documents as “J.P.” as a person who provided authorities information about the El Monte shooting, and asked an accomplice to distribute the report, stating it should go “to all the homies,” which was interpreted as a message to fellow gang members that J.P. should be murdered for cooperating with law enforcement.
On March 5, 2022, two days after the police report began circulating among gang members, Carrillo and a co-conspirator – who were driving a car rented with a stolen credit card – encountered J.P. in Commerce. Carrillo got out of the rental car and fired at least two rounds into the vehicle J.P. was riding in with the intent to kill him. J.P. was not hit, but the driver of the vehicle – a woman identified in court documents as M.F. – was fatally wounded.
Carrillo admitted in his plea agreement that his purpose in committing the murder was to maintain and increase his position in the QV enterprise by killing J.P., a person that he believed was cooperating with law enforcement.
Carrillo further admitted that he caused at least $150,000 in losses and damages to the El Monte shooting victim and at least $150,000 in losses and damages to M.F.’s next of kin and heirs.
United States District Judge Fred W. Slaughter scheduled a February 26, 2026, sentencing hearing, at which time Carrillo will face a statutory maximum sentence of life in federal prison.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI’s San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Task Force and involved agents and officers assigned to the Task Force from the FBI, the El Monte Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Pomona Police Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Special Service Unit. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also participated in the investigation.
Assistant United States Attorneys Wilson Park and Kellye Ng of the Violent and Organized Crime Section and Assistant United States Attorney Danbee Kim of the Environmental Crimes and Consumer Protection Section are prosecuting this case.
Source: DOJ Release
