SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Two teenage gang members were sentenced in federal court Friday to 25 years in prison for attempting to murder a target of the Sinaloa cartel, and for the collateral death of a fellow gang member who was fatally shot during the failed murder attempt.
Andrew Nunez and Johncarlo Quintero – who were both 15 at the time of the crimes on March 26 and 27, 2024 – pleaded guilty in December 2025 to murder and attempted murder charges, admitting they were acting as hired hitmen for the Sinaloa cartel when they made two attempts in five hours to kill the cartel’s target.
Both were members of the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Westside Wilmas gang from the greater Los Angeles area…