A man described by law enforcement as one of Southern California’s most prominent street racing influencers has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with 16 counts of conspiracy for allegedly organizing a number of so-called street takeovers.
Erick Romero Quintana, 22, pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit reckless driving during a brief court appearance Thursday in downtown L.A. He faces at least a decade in prison after authorities charged him with running the Instagram account @privatemeetz, which blasted out the locations of 16 takeover events across South L.A. to its more than 60,000 followers from December 2022 to November 2023, according to a criminal complaint filed last month.
At one of those events, a 24-year-old girl died after a spinning car careened into the crowd…