Posted on 02/11/2008 7:38:15 AM PST by truthkeeper
Ralph "Perico" Rocha and Rafael "Cisco" Gonzalez-Mu oz committed what is considered a mortal sin among the ranks of the dreaded Mexican Mafia prison gang: they encroached into the drug territory of a senior gang member.
Their transgression marked them for death according to county prosecutors, who in early December charged six individuals with trying to murder Rocha and Gonzalez-Mu oz on behalf of another "made" Mexican Mafia member, Jaques "Jocko" Padilla. The six, including Padilla's wife, La Puente resident Maria "Lola" Llantada, are in L.A. County Jail awaiting a March 7 court date.
Despite the arrests, Rocha and Gonzalez-Mu oz are likely still in mortal danger; sheriff's officials have confirmed that Rocha was shot last week in the Norwalk area. His injuries were minor, however, and he was treated from a local hospital and released.
Law enforcement investigators and gang associates say the Llantada case, along with a spate of other Mexican Mafia-related cases over the past year, illustrate the influence exerted across vast swaths of the San Gabriel Valley by the prison gang, also known as La Eme. The cases also show that the pilfering of "taxes" on drugs by rival gangs is behind many cases of Eme-related violence, which has plagued the area for decades.
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"Wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico"....
I suppose he's right.
This is in my old stomping grounds 30 years ago, and they had gang problems then. I thank God my parents got our family out of that armpit. Now we live in the eastern part of N. CA and the quality of life is still much better than it ever was down in L.A.. I don’t know why anyone would want to live there. Too many people, among other things.
I’m from the SGV too. Go Moors!
Covina. We sold to Mexicans in 1989 - the wave was just starting to move east.
I left Glendora in 1993. Woot!
Ping.
Most of our pretty little valley is unrecognizable now. I know Alhambra sure is, and if ever "American Graffiti" existed, it was Alhambra.
I lived about 7 miles from the mountains and most days couldn’t see them. That’s pretty bad when you go from valley floor to mountains.
I was born in West Covina and grew up in Valinda. I went back to see our old house once. I was so depressed I never went back again. We moved to N. CA in 1978. There were plenty of folks who didn’t speak any english back then. The first week of my senior year was minimum schedule due to gang fights.
I need to move out to Moreno Valley to get my poor innocent children away from all those gang members in Los Angeles.
So all the gang members moved east with their unsuspecting parents.
They have a Martin Luther King Boulevard now out there in the middle of the "Inland Empire" in the San Gabriel Valley.
Looks like they need to add a Cesar Chavez Boulevard as well!
But if you travel east on the 60 you will come to another one out near Moreno Valley.
I just thought they had renamed that part of Sunset.
I never knew about Brooklyn. Thanks for the history lesson.
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