The Web: Social Media, Jail Calls, and Family Ties – The First Attempt on Swifty’s Life
What sets this case apart is its sheer complexity. Far from an isolated brawl, this conspiracy stretched from jailhouse TikTok messages to coded phone calls between inmates, 66-year-old mothers, and associates across Southern California.
A chilling series of intercepted calls revealed the machinery of the plot:
- Onesimo “Vamps” Gonzalez—in 2023 incarcerated two cells down from Swifty—called his mother, who soon relayed word from the streets: Swifty was “no good.”
- Jonathan “Dreamer” Quevedo, another inmate, reached out to a Kern County prisoner for guidance on how to carry out the attack.
- References to MoneySign Suede—who was murdered in a correctional facility shower in 2023—made it clear: this was no idle threat.
In 2023, on the morning of the first attempt at murdering Swifty, three inmates (Adrian “Slick” Bueno, Andrew “Largo” Shinaia, and Jude “Crazy” Valle) stormed Swifty’s cell. As a fourth blocked the cameras, they beat and “sliced” him. Incredibly, Swifty survived.
Hours later, Quevedo called out: “They didn’t really get a good show… Expect them to be performing in probably the 4000 floor here soon.” The violence was anything but entertainment, but the language reveals how normalized these horrors have become inside the walls.
