Reputed Mexican Mafia figure 'Snuffy' convicted in home invasion killing of club owner
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Set us as preferred One night nearly 16 years ago, two men broke into the Downey home of Hermilio Franco.Franco, who owned a popular nightclub called El Farallon and acted in low-budget Mexican films, awoke when one of the intruders pressed a taser to his neck.
He drew a chrome-plated .45 from under his pillow and opened fire.One of the prowlers was shot in the neck and paralyzed instantly.
The other, hit in the stomach, staggered out of the house.He had vanished by the time the police arrived, his identity a mystery for the next 15 years.
California Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero was implicated in 2014 in the killing of Hermilio Franco, who owned the El Farallon nightclub.Yet prosecutors didn’t charge him until 2025.On Monday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found that Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero was the intruder who got away those early morning hours of Nov.
3, 2010.Quintero, an alleged member of the Mexican Mafia, was found guilty of murdering Franco and now faces life in prison when he is sentenced Oct.
16.Quintero’s lawyer, Cameron Talley, said he respected the verdict even if he was disappointed by it.
“It’s still my belief Manny Quintero’s an innocent man,” Talley said.Quintero, 50, also faces pending charges in an unrelated case that accuse him of conspiring to murder a rapper who was attacked in the Los Angeles County jail.Talley denied that Quintero is affiliated with the Mexican Mafia, a group of about 140 men who control most Latino gangs in Southern California.
Central to the prosecution’s case in the Franco murder was the account of Quintero’s paralyzed accomplice, Larry Trujillo.In exchange for a reduced sentence, Trujillo told investigators from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office and the Downey Police Department in 2014 that he broke into Franco’s home with Qui...