How A Gang Member's Body Art Landed Him A Major Conviction

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

In 2004, a 23-year-old man named John Juarez was shot in front of a branch of Mr. Ed's Liquor located on Rosemead Boulevard. As reported by the Daily Bulletin, Juarez was a member of Pico Nuevo, Rivera-13's rival gang. His killer was never caught until Detective Sergeant Kevin Lloyd of the Pico Rivera Sheriff's Station happened upon a series of photos that reminded him of Juarez's crime scene.

Lloyd was working on an unrelated gang case and going through photos on file when he saw the ones taken of Anthony Garcia's tattoos. It looked like a storyboard on his chest that depicted a man grabbing hold of a Mr. Peanut character in front of a building called The Rivera. In the middle of his chest was another scene, this time with Mr. Peanut lying down bullet-ridden on the ground in front of Mr. Ed's Liquor. The third tattoo was a helicopter shooting bullets on Mr. Peanut, per ABC News. The tattoos looked eerily similar to the Juarez crime scene, and Lloyd knew that Garcia was somehow connected to the unsolved murder case.

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