The owner of El Taco Loko, a brick-and-mortar taco shop with food trucks in the Valley, pleaded guilty to a firearm charge and to employing undocumented immigrants to work in his businesses on Wednesday as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.
Blademir Angulo Audeves, 42, was arrested in early July after federal agents executed a search warrant for his Valley home, three physical locations of his business and a 16th Avenue home where several of his undocumented employees were living. Twelve of Angulo Audeves’ undocumented employees were picked up during the execution of the July 8 search warrants as well.
Later that month, he pleaded not guilty to four counts related to his firearm possession and employing undocumented immigrants. But over a month after his initial plea, federal prosecutors agreed to drop two charges in exchange for guilty pleas on two other counts…