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By: Anthony Boyce
Date: 14/12/2019
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image.png.f75a2fa372454a2e1067c6743d43a8af.pngBrutal Control: A Brief History of the Mexican Mafia

 

The Mexican Mafia, or La Eme, is at the top of a Hispanic organized crime hierarchy that includes both prison and street gangs in San Andreas. According to most accounts, La Eme was formed in 1957 by Luis "Huero Buff" Flores. At the time, Flores was incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy, San Andreas. Flores and other founding members created La Eme as a both a "gang of gangs" and to protect Hispanics from other gangs within the San Andreas prison system.
 

La Eme quickly grew in size and strength. In the 1960s, the San Andreas Department of Corrections moved Eme members to other prisons such as Bolingbroke, in an effort to break up the gang activity at DVI. This effort served to spread La Eme's influence to other prisons. As La Eme expanded, the group saw the potential for profiting from drug sales, gambling and extortion rackets inside prison, so leaders placed taxes on these activities, forcing Latino inmates to hand over a small percentage of profits to the gang. In the 1980s, La Eme took this approach to the street. By joining forces with East Los Santos street gang leaders, La Eme began to control activities like drug trafficking, extortion, contract killings, and debt collection from inside prison walls. As prisons became more racially divided, rival race-based criminal organizations sprang up in the San Andreas prison system, including the Black Guerilla Family and the Aryan Brotherhood. La Eme continued to thrive in the face of this opposition, and even grew more organized, drafting a set of gang rules or "commandments" and recruiting members from Latino street gangs in Southern San Andreas.
 

The Mexican Mafia enjoyed unchecked power in San Andreas prisons and streets until the 1990s, when a concentrated effort of police raids and subsequent federal indictments were intended to put a wrench in the wheels of the gang's machine. In 1995, 22 people were charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act with crimes including murder, extortion, and kidnapping. When these 22 people were arrested in May of that year, justice system officials thought they'd finally ended La Eme's reign of terror. Debra Wang, the United States Attorney for the Central District of San Andreas, said, "We have effectively crippled the gang and put it out of business." United States Attorney Nora M. Manella told the Los Santos Times, "This indictment and the arrests will significantly disable one of San Andreas' most violent gangs." History suggests the Mexican Mafia was not broken by these legal challenges. Although its power has diminished since the late 1990s, the group continues its criminal activities both in and outside of prisons all over San Andreas.

To the jailers of California, the Mexican Mafia is known as the gang of gangs. Any member of a Latino street gang sent to prison or jail in San Andreas likely has to abide by the rules and dictates of the gang while in prison. Even to the point of making peace with their long-time hated rivals. They have the ability to turn gangs that are historically sworn enemies that fight on the streets into allies when they come inside our jail system,” said Commander Joseph Dempsey of the Los Santos County Sheriff’s Department. Author and former Los Santos Times reporter Sam Quinones has chronicled the Mexican Mafia and associated Latino street gangs of San Andreas for two decades. Quinones says the gang’s power extended as its 30-year reputation for viciousness in the jail system won the allegiance of Latino street gangs throughout Southern San Andreas. The Mexican Mafia’s influence and importance to Southern San Andreas goes far far beyond the prisons now,” Quinones told The Daily Beast. “I came to understand the Mexican Mafia was as important to many towns and communities as the mayor. They had an enormous effect in certain areas of Southern California, particularly the Latino barrios—an effect on the crime rate, the murder rate, and how drugs were sold.” Two federal indictments unsealed May 23 in Los Santos vividly affirm the immense power wielded by the gang of gangs in the jails and prisons of California. The court documents allege members of the Mexican Mafia divided up control of the drug trade in nearly every jail and prison in the state, imposing “taxes” and meting out violent discipline to inmates who didn’t follow the gang’s rules. One of the indictments goes as far as to characterize the gang’s activity as “an illegal government” inside what is the largest jail system in the country. What’s more, the indictments assert what cops and crooks in Los Santos have been saying for years, that the gang’s system of discipline and “taxation” extended far beyond the walls of the state’s prisons and into nearly every community in the Los Santos area where Latino street gangs were active. “Members of such gangs are expected to and are proud to, carry out the orders of the Mexican Mafia member in control of their neighborhood or custody facility because doing work for the Mexican Mafia increases the gang member’s status and reputation,” reads one of the unsealed indictments. A sense of the far-reaching criminal enterprise in Southern San Andreas was evident from the array of local police and federal agents who participated in last week’s announcement that federal racketeering charges were being brought against Mexican Mafia members and associates. 
 

LOS Santos– Special agents from the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety, in conjunction with federal and local authorities, have arrested 15 defendants named in a federal racketeering indictment that describes the development and implementation of a coalition of three criminal street gangs in the Northeast Los Santos area. The gangs were brought together under a truce ordered by a Mexican Mafia member for the purpose of controlling criminal activity in the neighborhoods where the trio of gangs operated. Unlike previous federal racketeering cases in this region that targeted long-established street gangs, the indictment that was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury outlines how Mexican Mafia member Arnold Gonzales created a criminal enterprise by unifying three gangs that had traditionally been rivals. According to the 27-count indictment, the “peace treaty” imposed by Arnold Gonzales brought together the Frogtown, Toonerville and Rascals gangs, which then worked “in concert to control the narcotics trafficking and other illicit activities committed in their territories,” which run along the Los Santos River from Mirror Park nearly to El Burro Heights. The indictment alleges a conspiracy to violate the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and accuses a total of 22 defendants of being “members and associates of a criminal organization engaged in, amongst other things, conspiracy to traffic in narcotics, narcotics trafficking, extortion, and crimes of violence, including conspiracy to commit murder, murder, attempted murder, and robbery.”

 “There is a path of lives ruined, and families devastated by the violence, extortion, and addictions that were created by this gang alliance,” said Bill Kunz, Special Agent in Charge, San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Safety. “So, those who join with the Mexican Mafia should be on notice: law enforcement is also banded together. We will track you down, and take you down.” Gonzales is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator.  He is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole at Bolingbroke Penitentiary.  He was convicted on

September 7, 1982 of murder in the first degree, assault with the intent to murder, and burglary in the 2nd degree out of Los Santos County.  Exploiting a power vacuum created by previous federal RICO cases targeting Northeast Los Santos gangs and the Mexican Mafia members who controlled them, Arnold Gonzales allegedly assumed control of the three street gangs in the fall of 2010. Because he was incarcerated in Bolingbroke Penitentiary after being convicted of murder, Arnold Gonzales anointed another Frogtown member – Jorge Grey, also known as “Bouncer” – to be his emissary on the streets, according to the indictment. Acting as the so-called shot caller, Grey convened a meeting of representatives of Northeast Los Santos gangs in September 2010. At this meeting, Grey informed the gang representatives that he was Arnold Gonzales’s “mouthpiece” and that he had orders to broker a truce among the rival gangs of Frogtown, Toonerville, and the Rascals so that they could work together to control illegal activities in the area on behalf of, and for the benefit of, Arnold Gonzales. The investigation showed that nearly two years after its formation, the criminal organization had achieved its goal of unifying the three longstanding rival gangs into a single criminal enterprise. Less than two years after Arnold Gonzales imposed the truce on the gangs, one of the Toonerville shot callers, Manuel Vallejo, was talking about the “United Nations,” “New World Order” and “United Neighborhoods,” which he said was the “game plan.” Just a few months ago, Vallejo was boasting about the execution of that “game plan,” noting that he was part of something that had ended more than 50 years of fighting between Frogtown, Toonerville, and the Rascals. “For the past two decades, federal authorities have been fighting the influence of the Mexican Mafia both inside prison facilities and on the streets of Southern San Andreas,” said Assistant United States Attorney Robert Dugdale, Chief of the office’s Criminal Division. “We sought to ensure that being a shot caller in such a gang is a job whose only reward will be many, many years in federal custody. The indictment announced today is the latest salvo in this battle, and we will continue our crackdown on criminal organizations like the Mexican Mafia and street gangs that do its bidding as long as they threaten our communities.
 

The RICO indictment targeting the Arnold Gonzales Organization is the result of Operation “Gig ‘em,” which was a 2½-year investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Violent Crime Impact Team; the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Safety, Special Service Unit; the Glendale Police Department; and the Los Angeles Police Department. Glendale Police Chief Rob Castro stated, “The Glendale Police Department recognizes that gang crimes have no borders and the City of Glendale is not immune to the impact of gang violence. Our participation in a multi-jurisdictional operation such as this ensures the safety of our community.” This morning, authorities arrested 14 of the defendants named in the RICO indictment. Four other defendants were already in custody, and law enforcement continues to search for three defendants, including Grey. (Two other individuals named in separate one-defendant, one-count drug trafficking indictments were also arrested this morning.) Members of the organization also implemented plans to expand operations into the greater Lancaster, San Andreas area, where they hoped to engage in drug trafficking and collect “taxes” on behalf of, and for the benefit, of Arnold Gonzales. As part of the scheme, several participants in the enterprise allegedly deposited money into Arnold Gonzales’s prison account, with one individual depositing over $133,000 on her own over the course of the 2-year investigation. The money was closely tracked by investigators. The indictment alleges that Grey and other members of the enterprise engaged in narcotics and weapons transactions at Homeboy Industries, and one defendant allegedly planned to use Homeboy Industries as an “alibi” if he was accused of associating with other gang members in violation of a gang injunction. In addition to the RICO charge in the indictment, various defendants are charged with narcotics and weapons offenses, including, in one instance, the possession of a machinegun. An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in court. If they are convicted of charges contained in the indictment, all of the defendants would face potential sentences of decades in federal prison.

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image.png.6f27b91fca29ef18a523a730f0fb0d76.pngBrutal Control: The Mexican Mafia's involvement in the hit of Vicente 'Chucky' Gutierrez, Ghetto Boyz OG.

August 3rd, 2019. Gonzalo Suriel, a validated Emero, one of the most infamous Mexican Mafia hitmen, and the prime suspect of the case, leaves his house at 2PM, after dialing up Spider, a Camarada at the time, asking him to bring, quote on quote, "We've got something to talk about. Swing by Davis", little did he know that they were about to perform a hit for one the Emeros on the inside, Rudy Correra a/k/a Panic, one of the key figures of the gang Ghetto Boyz 27st, a member that has been affiliated to the Mexican Mafia and his gang for about fifty years now, and is also known as the "Godfather" of the Ghetto Boyz. 

Chato and Spider were ordered to do a hit on Chucky since he stole drugs from Panic, and was not paying his taxes to the Mexican Mafia. 3PM, the meeting has been arranged and Chucky is told that it'll be a Sunday barbecue, and he'll have to attend serious business. Vicente arrives to the scene and gets introduced to Spider and Chato, both known to be operating with all of the Southern Mexican gangs around South and East Los Santos. Forty or so minutes pass, and multiple shots are heard, Chucky has been brutally beaten, stabbed, and shot, his body left in the canals North West of Davis, leaving a bloody trail behind. Police say that he has been stabbed twenty-seven times in the stomach, four times in the neck, and he had two bullet holes in his forehead. Chato and Spider were last seen at the Davis Gas Station before disappearing for two months, multiple other hits were ordered by Joey "Puppet" Pousa, Chato's sponsor and mentor, that being the explosion at Vespucci, as the Gravedwellers had an ongoing conflict with the Mexican Mafia, alongside the Jamestown shootings, that involved the killings of two children and multiple Jamestown gang affiliates. 

Chato was caught in a trap house around East Los Santos. He was charged for the murder of Vicente 'Chucky' Gutierrez, and he's now serving a sentence to life with no chance of parole.

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unknown.pngBrutal Control: The current state of the Mexican Mafia.

Los Santos has always been the 'crown jewel' of La Eme and it's street operations with the organization having a stranglehold on much of the city's Hispanic street gangs. This is a list that has grown to include some of the largest gangs in the entire state. Criminal operations within the city have largely been coordinated through a tight-knit core of seasoned 'Camaradas' that collects taxes and enforces its whims throughout East Los Santos. Most recently at the top of this structure was prominent gangland figure Rene 'Bosko' Blajos whose reputation for cunning and extreme brutality earned him enormous respect within the Mexican Mafia. Bosko, throughout a two year period, worked virtually unopposed to step up in the leadership and establish a vast criminal enterprise that earned millions from drug trafficking alone. This brief empire was brought to an untimely end with an enormous city-wide law enforcement operation dubbed "Open Casket" that saw La Eme's street presence evaporate overnight with a series of indictments. Law Enforcement officials speculate that with the fall of Blajos' organization a serious power vacuum has formed between the survivors as well as a newer generation that seeks their place in the limelight and who are increasingly unscrupulous with how they attain it. They're known to have been involved in the Jamestown hits, alongside the explosion in Vespucci.








 

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