LOS ANGELES -- Hector "Big Weasel" Marroquin, 51, and co-defendant Sylvia Arellano, 25, entered pleas before Judge Steven Van Sicklen on three counts of manufacture, distribution and transport for sale of an unlawful assault weapon.A former gang member who founded of an anti-gun group that received $1.5 million from the city to reduce gun and gang violence pleaded no contest Thursday to weapons charges and was sentenced to eight years in state prison. Arellano also pleaded no contest to machine gun conversion and possessing a silencer and admitted that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
Maroquin was arrested in June at his Downey home following a nine-month investigation into weapons sales by the 18th Street Gang. Marroquin sold weapons to undercover officers in September, October and November of 2006. Federal agents raided a junkyard owned by Marroquin in South Gate and his Cudahy restaurant, Marroking Seafood and Bar, where they found gang photos and writings. Under the terms of his plea deal, Marroquin was sentenced to eight years for each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. Marroquin, who had been free on $260,000 bail, was immediately taken into custody to begin serving his term. Arellano -- also free on bail -- was given until Tuesday to surrender for sentencing. She is expected to be sentenced to four years in prison. "He's going to get eight years, which we feel is a strong sentence," said Deputy District Attorney Eric Harmon. "And she will get four years because she had relatively no criminal record." Marroquin, a onetime 18th Street gang member turned anti-gang activist, founded No Guns in 1996. As part of the city's L.A. Bridges gang intervention program, the organization received $1.5 million in municipal funds before its subcontract was canceled last year amid allegations that Marroquin hired many of his relatives at No Guns -- including his son, Hector "Little Weasel" Marroquin. In 1998, Marroquin was tried and acquitted of weapons violations. Prior to his arrest last June, Marroquin was also arrested in 2006 on weapons charges. His son, an 18th Street gang member, pleaded no contest to home-invasion robbery last year and was sentenced to state prison.
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