MacArthur Park in the grip of a narco power couple who were funneling drugs

An accused narco kingpin and her boyfriend were the alleged masterminds behind a drug ring that funneled fentanyl and methamphetamine into crime-ridden MacArthur Park, charges revealed.

Mallaly Moreno-Lopez and beau Jackson Tarfur allegedly controlled a series of storefronts along Alvarado Street on the edge of the park that were responsible for the lion’s share of illegal narcotics feeding desperate addicts who flooded the park daily, prosecutors said.

A swarm of Drug Enforcement Agency agents raided the couple’s South Los Angeles home Wednesday as part of a broader operation that led to nearly 40 arrests and the recovery of millions of dollars in potentially deadly drugs.

Both face federal drug possession and distribution charges and face a prison sentence of 10 years to life.

Investigators say they caught the couple delivering narcotics to local storefronts so street dealers could sell them, according to a criminal complaint.

“Moreno-Lopez and her boyfriend Jackson Tarfur were delivering drugs in the Alvarado Corridor here across from MacArthur Park,” LA’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, said at the park on Wednesday. “And they were stocking and stashing the drugs at the business, as you can see across the street.”

The pair are accused of working for the ruthless 18th Street gang, a violent, transnational criminal organization with thousands of members involved in drug trafficking, extortion and murder.

Moreno-Lopez was born into the gang and both of her parents are active in the group, prosecutors said. Her mother was arrested in another raid in March, authorities said.

In one brazen move, investigators watched as the couple allegedly met with a Food4Less employee to hand over a brown Nike bag filled with nearly 1,000 grams of fentanyl and meth, the complaint said.

According to prosecutors, Moreno-Lopez was even caught on camera unloading a folding black shopping cart from a white Jeep Wrangler and stuffing eight large paper bags before driving it into a business.

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Businesses in MacArthur Park were taxed by the gangs — including MS-13 and the Crazy Riders — whose members rarely if ever trafficked the drugs themselves, the complaint said.

The scene was so wild that a soldier was spotted at street level by an undercover salesman with guns and stacks of drug bags standing out in the open on a staircase.

On Wednesday, when officers raided Moreno-Lopez and Tarfur’s home, the suspects tried to get rid of their stash by filling the toilet with bags of fentanyl in a desperate attempt to flush them.

Meanwhile, DEA agents conducted two other simultaneous raids, including one on a Calabasas mansion, where agents recovered nearly 40 pounds of fentanyl containing 190,000 doses, with a street value of approximately $10 million. A total of 25 dealers were targeted in the raids and a total of 39 people were arrested.