Mexican Mafia articles

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First of all when a discussion of politics with prison organizations and who is who comes up I am in dire need to comment that first of all the NHL gang has been pretty much dissolve along with other small gangs in SoCal that weren’t the so called cream of the crop pickings for the California Eme. The North Hollywood Locos aren’t the only gang in SoCal that has been labeled as no good because of past decisions that their so called leaders made in the past. Will this deter youngsters in their area to get in a gang? Probably not and will only encourage these youngsters to get into other surrounding area gangs. I been working in the North Hollywood area for many many years and seen many taggers and gangs come and go other than the much older Gangs in the other cites such as Pacoima, etc.

The reason why Paca and San Fer are the shot callers of the San Fernando Valley is because when the so called books are open their homies or family members have first dibs in being made thus making the surrounding gangs in their areas out of reach. Why is Paca and San Fer the only gangs in San Fernando Valley that has eme made brothers? I believe its called favoritism or perhaps maybe its a trust issue? The chances of a close homie from the hood or family ratting on you is far less than someone from a different hood? We all know that their not suppose to politic but if they don’t like a hood then that hood has no chance.

Heres an example of what I am talking about:

https://info.publicintelligence.net/CA-MexicanMafia.pdf

The only brothers from San Fernando Valley are Pacoima and San Fer. I’m sure if there are new ones their from the same hoods or family members. This is a proven fact. A lot of the eme made brothers are somehow related.

The eme has way changed from their glory days of the 1950’s because of technology, FBI surveillance, cops, etc. From my understanding the new la eme made brothers are no longer tatted and are discouraged in getting incarcerated. As a matter in fact its already been proven that you don’t have to ever be in prison or incarcerated to be a made brother. The newer la eme made brothers are educated business men with degrees, etc. This is a totally different attitude and outlook than the first made brothers that were made in the 1960s and 70s. Kinda looks like their finally going into the Italian mafia direction.
Everyone knows that you can only deal drugs for so long and so does the eme. Perhaps this is why the emes attitude has changed in how they operate and well… nothing last forever. Eme brothers in suits? Its already happening. I’m curious to see what will pop up later on in the future with their illegal dealings that are not so called drug related. Maybe fronted legal business dealings but who knows. It looks all like a west coast Italian mafia direction to me.

I personally don’t care for gangs and could care less what hood is calling the shots and what hood are ratts. But what I find interesting is how when times and technology changes so do the people of all sorts.

So to all the little gang bangers that are commenting on their hoods- continue until you get incarcerated and start taking orders from the neighborhoods that you don’t get a long with. And to the bangers that wants to make it to the big leagues- you better make sure your business oriented because that’s the direction where its all headed. If you have nothing valuable to offer to the California eme then you have no value. If you have no education or business smarts your no value. All those tattoos wont help and might even be frowned upon now.

The real reason why a lot of these north hollywood gangs aren’t in the big leagues is because a lot of them are immigrants that can’t speak english good. The California Eme are mexican americans with made brothers that can’t even speak much spanish other than spanglish. It’s a waste of time talking about small gangs like NH locos, boyz and even NS18. The majority of them are border brothers not necessarily from Mexico but even from south America. Just nobodys waiting to be used once their locked up, that is if they decide to run with the southsiders. Once they get incarcerated, a lot of these guys ends up running with the paisa cars once they realize its a lot more than what they originally thought it was.

The California of Corrections already acknowledge that the California eme are no longer just a prison gang but a organized criminal syndicate with new made men on the streets. The old eme realizes that is doesn’t benefit them or the organization by making new made men only to be locked up and locked down eventually for life. They want their brothers to stay on the streets, to profit from the streets and to grow the black hand of the eme on the streets. This can’t be accomplish with uneducated dope fiend gang members who can’t speak english. With the newer state of the art technology that the feds and law enforcement uses the eme realized that they had no choice but to change things up. After all, they already control all the prisons in California.

Selling narcotics only last for so long. Tablas from Florencia 13 knew this and this is why he started the trend with the made brothers to have the paisas do all the dirty work. They’ll just kick back and make their money by ridiculously over taxing them while still calling the shots from Pelican Bay. 90% of all drugs that are funneled to California comes from or through Mexico. You do the math.

They also realized that the only way for the eme to grow and to prosper was to choose the new made brothers from a breed of highly educated, organized business oriented mexican americans who at no cost will succeed in expanding and prospering the eme. We are not talking about the stereotyped cholos that you may see terrorizing on the streets while throwing up gang signs but talking about individuals that would not even fit the profile.

The statistics seem to indicate that putting a lot of people in prison drives down the murder/violence rates. Even with the lousy economy, crime has been going down. This has created a lot of head-scratching among the stat geeks because the accepted doctrine is that poverty drives crime. That hasn’t happened. We’ve got historic rates of high unemployment and a record number of people on some sort of government assistance and yet the crime stats have remained low. At the same time we’ve got California prisons bursting at the seams. Obviously, bad actors off the streets keeps the streets safer.

At the same time, we’re seeing the same or higher level of gang prosecutions as there was in the 1990s. What’s the explanation? It may be that gangsters have gotten smarter in the way they conduct their business — less killing and more focus on business.

The Cosa Nostra learned a long, long time ago that mass blood letting is bad for business. The Carnales may be operating from the Italian Mob’s playbook. Keep the violence to a minimum and solve disputes with either cash or some other concession. Tablas’ kite seems to bear this out. He ordered Florencia to check the set banging and refer all disputes to Pelican Bay. We’ve heard this before in 1990s and to a large degree it worked.

And it may work again.

The bottom line is that massive indictments aren’t going to stop the increasing sophistication and growth of criminal enterprises. But it may put the brakes on the sort of bloodshed we saw twenty years.

Only time will tell in seeing just how far the eme will succeed in their new endeavors.

Posts : 14 Join date : 2017-06-29

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sandiego/news/press-releases/19-mexican-mafia-associates-charged-after-3-year-multi-agency-investigation

FBI San Diego
Special Agent Davene Butler
(858) 320-1800

July 14, 2017
Nineteen Mexican Mafia Associates Charged After Three-Year, Multi-Agency Investigation
‘Operation Emero’ Targeted Notorious Prison Gang with Long, Deadly Reach

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, in collaboration with state and federal law enforcement partners, announced the results of a three-year investigation, July 14, 2017, into the deadly and violent Mexican Mafia prison gang. The gang, also known as Eme or La Eme, operates inside and outside of prisons ordering murders, assaults, extortion, and drug trafficking. The organization routinely sanctions murder and violent assault as a means of discipline for members, associates, and rivals.

The investigation revealed that incarcerated Mexican Mafia members were using facility phones, e-mail, mail, and contraband cell phones to communicate with associates who were ordered to extort victims, sell drugs, and to collect money on behalf of incarcerated members. Two key groups were identified as being directed by Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate Jose “Bat” Marquez and California death row inmate, Ronaldo Ayala. This investigation involved thousands of recorded conversations and voluminous written communication detailing the gang’s internal operations and criminal activities.

“This gang is extremely gruesome and calculated in their violence to inspire fear and intimidation,” DA Stephan said. “This investigation has far-reaching implications across the organization and sends a message that law enforcement will protect the community from gang violence.”

As a result of Operation Emero, law enforcement executed 11 search warrants and filed charges against 19 criminals, most of whom are active gang members with prior criminal convictions. Law enforcement arrested 10 members and associates of the gang on Thursday, July 13, 2017, seized $51,000 in cash, and seized methamphetamine and heroin. Of the 25 felony counts, charges include conspiracy to commit torture, conspiracy to commit assault causing great bodily injury, extortion, possession of drugs for sale, conspiracy to commit arson, and possession of an assault weapon. In addition, during the course of the investigation, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Security Threat Group searched 39 prison cells and confiscated 23 contraband mobile phones, two sim cards, methamphetamine, heroin, and documents pertaining to Mexican Mafia business. Based on the searches and the investigation, four inmates were placed in administrative segregation. The investigation also led to seizure of six firearms, including an AK-47.

This operation was a joint effort among the East San Diego County Regional Gang Task Force led by Sheriff Bill Gore, the San Diego Violent Crimes Task Force led by the FBI; and the San Diego Special Services Unit of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

“The FBI is constantly working in San Diego, around the country, and globally, to mitigate the threat of violent gangs,” said Special Agent in Charge Eric S. Birnbaum. “This case demonstrates the combined work, expertise, and resources of our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners with the FBI Safe Streets Task Force Initiative to fight violent gang activity that impacts our community. Together we continue to get the job done.”

Thursday’s takedown of 10 targets was the result of long standing law enforcement cooperation.

“San Diego County Law Enforcement agencies have a long and successful history of cooperation and partnership,” Sheriff Bill Gore said. “I am proud to continue this tradition of partnership, which allows us to conduct complicated and effective investigations such as Operation Emero, which make the entire county safer.”

The investigation and subsequent takedown sent shockwaves through the gang’s organization.

“I commend our agents in CDCR’s San Diego Special Service Unit and thank our partners on the FBI Safe Streets Task Force,” said John E. Prelip, CDCR special agent in charge. “Through the Special Service Unit’s continued collaboration with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, this investigation exposed a sophisticated network of criminal activity orchestrated by the Mexican Mafia operating in the San Diego area. The Special Service Unit will continue to work together and liaison with law enforcement teams to dismantle the operations of criminal gangs.”

Defendants include: John Benavides, 28; Melissa Calingay, 30; Arturo Castillo, 37; Jenny Delaossa, 35; Patrick Germany, 32; Elias Guedea, 51; Brooke Herrera, 24; Sorina Maycott, 48; Jorge Munoz, 40; Robert Navarro, 59; Ariana Noriega, 25; Roberto Ortega Jr., 53; Monica Rodriguez, 37; Brandon Stephens, 35; Jack Harrison, III, 35; James Jackson, 29; Osvaldo, Luna, 28; and Richard Romero, 40, and one outstanding defendant. The defendants arrested in the takedown will be arraigned in Dept. 11 of the downtown location of Superior Court on July 24 at 2:00 p.m.

Task force agents and assistance were provided by the following agencies: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Internal Revenue Service, United States Marshals Service, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Highway Patrol, San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, San Diego County Probation Department, Chula Vista Police Department; El Cajon Police Department, La Mesa Police Department, National City Police Department, and the San Diego Police Department.

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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-mexican-mafia-20170728-story.html

Mexican Mafia, God, family — in that order.

That’s how one expert described the power and influence the notorious prison gang, also known as “La Eme,” holds over people in prison or county jail, as well as those on the outside.

In a 2007 article published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, writer Tony Rafael — who spent years researching the Mexican Mafia — explained in an interview how the gang’s leaders give orders to members of Hispanic or Latino street gangs that could include harassing, assaulting or killing others on its behalf.

Failure to follow orders is usually punished, often violently.

“When you click up with a gang that’s loyal to the Mexican Mafia, the Mexican Mafia comes before God, your family, and your friends going all the way back to childhood,” said Rafael, who published a book on the subject in 2009. “When they tell you to do something, you gotta do it.”
A group of 11 men and women accused of committing crimes linked to the Mexican Mafia prison gang ple
A group of 11 men and women accused of committing crimes linked to the Mexican Mafia prison gang pleaded not guilty in San Diego Superior Court. A total of 20 defendants are named in the complaint filed this week. (John Gibbins/U-T)

It will be interesting to see how that notion plays in San Diego Superior Court, where 20 people are facing charges related to their alleged association with the prison gang.

Twelve men and eight women stand accused of various felonies after a three-year investigation, dubbed “Operation Emero,” conducted by a multi-agency gang task force. The investigation was led by the Sheriff’s Department, FBI and a special services unit of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Some of the defendants pleaded not guilty this week in San Diego Superior Court to charges including extortion, kidnapping, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, drug possession for sale and conspiracy to commit assault, arson, robbery and torture.

Others, including defendants now in prison on other convictions, are expected to be arraigned over the next few weeks.

Felix Aguirre, a retired San Diego police detective who conducts training and information sessions on gangs, said the Mexican Mafia is one of several prison gangs that thrive in correctional institutions in California and across the country.

“It basically controls everything from prostitution to drugs — a lot of the criminal activities within the institutions,” he said.

When someone is sent to prison, it’s typical for that person to seek out a group of inmates he can identify with — usually other members of the same race — for protection and safety, Aguirre said. Those who associate with the Mexican Mafia may eventually be told to “put in work” for the gang, either inside a prison or jail, or out on the streets.

The “carnales,” loosely translated from Spanish as “brothers,” are the leaders of the organization, the “shot-callers,” Aguirre said. Below them are the “camaradas” or comrades, the second-tier leaders, and then the crew members or associates who carry out their orders. They also tend to rely on women — perhaps wives or girlfriends of the carnales — to communicate their directives on the street.

The gang is known to take a “tax” from anyone carrying out other criminal activities in areas claimed by the prison gang. In other words, if dealers are selling drugs in Mexican Mafia territory, they have to pay a percentage to the gang. If they don’t, the gang will still find a way to collect.

“The consequences are assault, violent robberies … They take what they want,” Aguirre said.

Prosecutors in San Diego County haven’t revealed many details about the new case, but have said the defendants operated in two groups, one of which was led by federal prisoner Jose Alberto “Bat” Marquez, the other by California death row inmate Ronaldo Ayala.

Neither is charged in the San Diego case, presumably because both men are expected to spend the rest of their lives locked away from the rest of society. But their names appear multiple times throughout the 40-page complaint in a long list of “overt acts” prosecutors included to support the charges.

Among them, Marquez is accused of directing a female defendant to give an inmate “knuckles” over a drug debt. On another occasion, Marquez told the same defendant to slap a woman and collect the money she owed him, according to prosecutors.

They say Ayala used a contraband cellphone to make calls from death row, including one in which he authorized the stabbing of an inmate at Centinela state prison in Imperial County in April.

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A timeline of events of the Mexican Mafia. Can't remember who found this so I can't give due credit.