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2 Updated 10/2010

850,000 - members in 31,000 in the United States

300,000 - Gang members in over 2,000 gangs in

150,000 - Gang members in over 1000 gangs in County

20,000 - Gang members in Orange County

10,000 - Gang members in San Diego County

1,000 - Gang members in Imperial County

• Estimated Strengths

Circ: 2008 • 97,000 LA County Gang Members • 6,700 Female Gang Members (6.7%) • 28,400 Gang Members • 58,800 Hispanic Gang Members • 3,500 Asian Gang Members • 311 Black Gangs (83 Blood) • 573 Hispanic Gangs • 104 Asian Gangs • 28 Gangs • 18,000 LA Morgue Bodies Processed • 326 Gang Fatalities in 2009 • These numbers are based on actual identified members, not estimates (2009) A group of three or more persons who are united by a common ideology that revoles around criminal activity • Gangs are not part of one’s ethnic culture

• Gangs are part of a criminal culture

• The gang comes before religion, family, marriage, community, friendship and the law.

“Barney” Mayberry

- Criminal Gangs: Members conspire or commit criminal acts for the benefit of the gang

- Traditional Gangs: Common name or symbol and claim territory

- Non-Traditional Gangs: Do not claim territory, but may have a location that members frequent • Taggers/Bombers • Party Crews • Rappers Young tagger in training • Gothics • Punks • Stoners • Car Clubs • SHARP Heads • Occult Gangs

Identity or Recognition - Allows a gang member to achieve a level or status he feels impossible outside the gang culture. They visualize themselves as warriors protecting their neighborhood.

Protection - Kids join because they live in a gang area and are subject to violence by rival gangs. Membership guarantees support and retaliation.

Brotherhood - The gang is a substitute for family. Many older brothers & relatives belong to the gang.

Intimidation - Kids may be forced to join through intimidation, such as extorting lunch money and/or beatings.

• Absence of productive community activities • Too much unstructured, non-supervised time • Emotional needs are not being met at home • Poverty, Profit, and Hopelessness • Family Tradition of Gang Membership • Absence of someone to model a strong work ethic • Lack of parental interest and support • Failure by parents to stress religious or community values • Inability to achieve success in school, sports or work “Our Gang” from the 1930’s “Little Rascals” comedy series

• “Spanky”- Died of alcohol poisoning

• “Alfalfa” – Died in a drug rip-off

• “Mickey” – aka: Robert Blake, arrested for

• “Buckwheat” – Died of a heart attack, rumored “Darla” “Spanky” “Alfalfa” “Mickey” “Buckwheat” to be a alcoholic

• “Darla” – Died of hepatitis

• Demonstrates a lack of academic achievement in school • Is disciplined repeatedly for behavior problems at school • Fails to attend classes or is chronically absent • Lacks productive hobbies to occupy his free time • Draws gang graffiti • Draws tattoos on his body • Has friends who dress in gang attire • Resides in a neighborhood where gangs are active • Has older siblings who are in a gang or friends whose older siblings are in gangs • Expresses a desire to dress in gang clothes such as baggy pants, oversized t-shirts, bandannas, etc.

• Acquires a new set of friends while ignoring old friends • A change of hair and/or clothing styles, wearing jewelry, piercing his ears • A unexplained increase spending money and/or possession of expensive items • Indications of drug or alcohol abuse • Frequently challenges parental authority, increase in swearing • Failing grades, truancy, and disciplinary problems at school • Displays of disrespect or hatred toward law enforcement • Wearing the same color clothing day in and day out • Writing or doodling in gang script and symbols • Signs of fighting – cuts & bruises that the youth refuses to explain • Becoming very secretive about his social life and time outside the home

• In 2008, an average of 15 young people (age 10 to 14) each day were murdered. Roughly 82 percent of those victims were killed by firearms.

• In 2009, more than 750,000 young people in the same age group were treated in emergency rooms for injuries substained due to violence.

• Direct and indirect costs for youth violence exceeds $158 Billion annually. This includes medical costs and lost productivity.

Center for Disease Control LEADERSHIP • Gang Leaders are typically older members with long criminal records. • They direct the gang’s criminal activity. • Leaders typically rise to the top by committing ruthless acts of violence.

HARD CORE MEMBERS • Members are devoted to the gang and its criminal activities. • They carry out the gang’s day-to-day criminal operations, including acts of violence. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS • Associate members are active gang members who readily identify themselves as a member of the gang but are not generally involved with the heavy violence associated with hard-core members.

FRINGE MEMBERS • A Fringe Member is generally a younger person who lives in the gang’s neighborhood and hangs out on the fringe of the gang. • Fringe members are reluctant to declare affiliation with the gang, but nevertheless will hangout with the gang. Sometimes gang members make it easy for law enforcement to stop and question them about their gang status. What would be your probable cause be for this detainment?

Fresno County Sheriff 0509 The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department uses the following criteria to identify gang members

• Self admission of gang member • Tattoos depicting gang affiliations • Style of dress consistent with gang membership • Possession of gang graffiti on personal property or clothing • Use of hand signs or symbols associated with gangs • Reliable identifies person as a gang member • Associates with known gang members • Prior arrests with known gang members • Statements from family members indicating gang membership • Other LE agencies identify subject as a gang member • Attendance at gang functions or known gang hang outs • Identified by other gang members or rival gang members

• Note: The factors listed are guidelines only. Not to be confused with traditional street gangs, car clubs provide meaningful alternatives to gang recruitment Thousands of gang related web sites have appeared on the world wide web. Web sites like “crips.com” or “bloods.com” provide excellent intelligence, although the information should be taken with a grain of salt considering the source. The web site www.ganginformation.com provides an excellent link source for many of these sites. www.ganginformation.com GUMBALL MACHINE “HOMIE” COLLECTABLES Teen Angels Magazine is a Hispanic gang oriented monthly magazine available by subscription or at newsstands. It is produced in Rialto, Ca and claims to provide the “best arte, pic’s, graffiti, pen pals, poems from the pinta and nationwide varrios”. Public events may be used to recruit, create a positive image, or hold regional strategy sessions for gangs or ex-gang members. Do not overlook the intelligence value of personal photos. While conducting searches involving gang members, always be on the look-out for “roll-call” photos that they like to keep. These photos will provide excellent intelligence to help solve gang crime. This is a photo of a Asian gang member This is a photo of a with a light anti-tank rocket. The photo was used successfully to conduct a member follow-up weapons Investigation with his mother. He gave it to a member of Some photos are simply the pathetic, here we see Prison Gang as “sagging” taken to the collateral for a drug extreme…. deal

Female gang members are often tasked with carrying the weapons and drugs This is a photo of Paul “Cowboy” Perez, a member of the Cantaranas Street Gang in Whittier, just before he was killed by his own gang. It seems “Cowboy” did a failed hit on a Mexican Mafia member without closing the deal. The gang killed him to prevent the Mexican Mafia from learning about the gang’s involvement in the hit. The photo was used as evidence against the gang. “Cowboy’s” memorial flyer put out by his gang Even the homeboys like to take pictures. Earlier in the day, member’s of this gang posed with some of their favorite weapons and gang signs. Later that night, one of their “homie’s” was gunned down in a drive-by shooting. The photo’s at left depict their attempt to transport him to the hospital. The three strikes law, “use a gun go to prison”, and stiffer prison sentences have all helped reduce crime on the streets Dep. Lavey Inmate after Extraction

Gang related activity in the US military is increasing and poses a threat to law enforcement officials and national security. Members of nearly every major street gang have been identified on military installations. Unofficial estimates suggest as many as 20,000 soldiers and sailors have sworn allegiance to one gang or another. Gang members enlist for a variety of reasons such as to obtain military tactics training, weapons or to escape their current gangster lifestyle. Gang Armored Vehicles In January 2008, Gang Officers pulled over a fully armored Cadillac Esplande that was being driven by local gangsters. The SUV was fully armored, including firing ports out the back. The officers had to rely upon the Motor Vehicle Code to secure the vehicle as un- roadworthy. It was overweight and it had shatter resistant windows. 1992 LA Riots “Kill the Police”

“Kill a cop…not a slob”

No its not cerebral palsy or is it? • Hand signs are used by gang members to identify their gang membership or to antagonize members of other gangs.

• Some gangs have elaborate hand and body signals, so advanced, that they can have complete conversations without saying a word.

• These signs are frequently used when they don't want others to know what they are about to do.

MS-13 B l o o d Gang Bangers and convicts love to pose all tough and proud. When standing they will lean slightly back and chin high. Arms crossed with the fists used to enlarge the biceps. Pants are sagging and knees are kept bowlegged. Often times the hands may be hidden deep inside the waistband for Boneyard Squat concealment. Gangster Lean “Generalizations about Gang Member Clothes Items”

Shirt - Always oversized to better hide weapons and not tucked in. Usually depicts sport team logos. Hispanics may wear Pendleton shirts buttoned at the collar.

Undershirt - Always white. Hispanics may tucked it into trousers.

Bandana - Worn just over the forehead, usually in the gang’s colors. Makes for a good readily available disguise.

Belts - Cloth belt, usually in gangs color about 12-18” too long (Makes for a better weapon). Buckle may have the gang initials or favorite logo.

Colored Beads - The colors represent there . They can be used in necklaces, wristbands, or worn in the hair or used in other fashions. With the introduction of strict dress codes and the use of uniforms in some school systems these type of indicators seem to be favored by the gangsters. “Generalizations about Gang Member Clothes Items”

Hats - Usually ball caps with the bill worn to one side or backward. The cap will be of the color and possible logo of the gang. The gang member’s name or gang may be stitched on the cap or scribbled under the bill.

Pants - Pants are always many sizes too big and worn so loose they are about to fall off. This type of “sagging” often depicts their boxer type underwear. Hispanics may wear khaki colored and highly starched pants with a crease. When wearing this type of pants, they may be worn high on the waist. If they wear shorts, they will cover the knee and long socks will be worn to minimize the amount of skin shown.

Shoes - Usually athletic shoes with the gang colors found in the laces and logos. The use of colored shoe laces is also common. The type of tennis shoes worn can also indicate gang membership. Some the popular styles worn are British Knights tennis shoes because of the initials BK which stand for Blood Killer. Columbia Knights tennis shoes are also popular and stand for Crip Killers. Barrio or Varrio = Neighborhood Vato Loco = Crazy Dude Carnal or Vato = Brother or Homie Por Vida = Forever Cliqua = Gang Subset Jefe = Boss Dog = Crime Partner Chingasos = fighting Ese = Socal Hispanic gang member Puto = Male Prostitute Greenlight = Ok to kill Rata = Snitch Hard Candy or In the Hat = Greenlight Placa = name or plaque Juice = Having pull Caca = Shit Kite = message Veterano = Older Guy One Time or Five-O = Officer Cholo = Male Gang Member Orale! = Hey…Ok Huevos = Having lot’s of guts Raza = Person of Hispanic Race Shank = Jail made weapon Sureno = South Sider or Ese Trucha = Inmate Trustee

Popped a cap = Shot at someone Drop a dime = Snitch on someone Ride or Hoop = Car Strawberry = Female prostitute 4 drugs Get Down or Bumpin Titties = Fight Ace Kool or Main Man = Best Friend Breakdown = Shotgun Bullet = One year in Jail Cuzz or Crab = Crip The Man or One time = Cop Ru or Slob = Blood or Piru Durag = Handkerchief around head Double Duece = .22 Caliber Gun Rag = Color of gang Tray Eight = .38 Caliber Gun Everything is everything = It’s Alright Righteous = True answer Ho-rah = Loud Talking Player = Into making money only Jammed or jacked up = confronted Holmes = Friend Red Eye = Hard Stare Packin = Carrying a gun Boo-ya = Shotgun Blast Four Five = .45 Caliber Gun Set = Neighborhood Dead Presidents = Money Tripping = Freaking Out

Box = Jail Crash Pad = A safe house Cung = Marijuana Dia-Low = Big brother or veteran Du-Ma = Mother f..ker FBI = A plain clothes Police Officer G-Ride = A stolen Vehicle Go Hop = Go to jail Green Paper = Money Ho = Prostitute Mo = Motel Pineapple Bitches = Girlfriends Play = Engaging in criminal activity Po-Po = The Police PT’s = Wannabe Gang Members Two face or Yim Jai = Snitch or informant White =

88 = Heil Hitler Party = COTC = Church of the Creator Crow = Shaved hair style Docs = Doc Martin work Flights = Jacket Head Banging = A Skinhead Dance Kike = Derogatory remark toward jews Mud People = In reference to minorities Nack = A weak person OI = A Skinhead greeting Put in check = Assault RAHOWA = Racial Holy War SHARP= Against Racial Prejudice Skins night out = Skinhead battle cry Zog = Zionist Occupied Goverment Al Cola = Adjustment Center Demilitarized Zone = No fighting Area Brand or Alice = Aryan Brotherhood Emely = Mexican Mafia Baghdad by the bay = San Quentin Farmers = La Bakers = Corcoran Prison Follie = Folsom Prison Bone = To have sex with Furniture = Knifes Bone Crusher = Prison made knife Growing Daisies = Dead Broadway = The free world In the hat = marked for a hit Burn = Steal Kicks = shoes Bus Ride = Court Appearance Kite or Wila = letter Catch a cold = To get killed Main street = General Population Chile = Soledad Prison Nancy = La Nuestra Familia Claim Jumper = False AB member Pony express = Mail Co-Sign it = To approve Riders = Bikers Country Club = Tehachapi Prison Screw = Corrections Officer Cow Town = Vacaville Prison To the bone = To the limit Dancing = Fighting What car your in = What gang your in

“Buket” out of LA City “Newspaper of the streets”

• Used for gang recognition & express identity • Also called Placasos, placas, or tags. Will often include gang monikers and nicknames • Used to mark Territory • Cross-outs are challenge or disrespect another gang or gang member, and can lead to retaliation. • Often found at a crime scene, to brag of crime committed • Identify those who are put on silent treatment Reading Gang Graffiti ( Street Gang) • “V” for “varrio” or neighborhood or territory (sometimes a “B” is used).

• “AVES” is the abbreviation for the Avenues Street Gang

• “NE LOS” short for North East Los Angeles

• “DREW ST 1” indicates the writers are part of “Drew Street” clique, a sub group within the Avenues.

• “Kreeper – Flako – Rigo – Tricky” are members of the Avenues gang, Drew Street Clique.

• A “cross-out”, indicates the dislike or disrespect for another gang or writer of graffiti.

68th Street East Coast Crips 55th Street Neighborhood Crips

Harpys Primera Flats

• A gang tattoo is the best indicator of gang membership

• Tattoos can be read and understood by the informed investigator and other gang bangers. Their tattoos usually includes the name, initials or symbols of the gang.

• Most gang tattoos are dark blue in color.

• Names and hometown are often depicted in old English Script. Lettering may be found on the knuckles arms, neck, or just about anywhere else on the body. Where Gangs are housed in LA County Jail South Siders: • TTCF (All of Tower Two) (Security Levels 8-9) • NCCF (Module 800 & ½ Module 700) • EAST (6 Dorms) (Also “Residents”: IMs that live in gang neighborhoods) • PDC-South (S/S, Residents, Piasa (Pie-sas) – in Mary & King Compounds)

• Nortenos (K-10): MCJ 1750 Hi-Power • Crips & : Integrated into General Population (GP) • Prison Gang Members (K-10): MCJ 1750 Hi-power • White Power: Integrated into General Population (GP) • Asian Gang Members: Integrated into General Population (GP) • Green Lighters (MCJ 2300)

• PDC-S (Levels 1-7) Basically Inmate Workers & School (Im’s separated by race) • PDC-N: General Population (All) • MCJ: General Population (Except 1750) • NCCF: General Pop (Modules 600 & ½ of Module 700) • PDC-E: General Population (1/2 Facility) • CRDF: Females

• Mexican Mafia (EME) • Nuestra Familia (NF) • Northern Structure (NS) • Aryan Brotherhood (AB) • Nazi Low Riders (NLR) • (BGF) • Syndicate (TS) • Sindicato Nuevo Mexico (SNM) Approximate California Prison Gang Membership

Prison Gang Members Associates

• Mexican Mafia 350 900 • Nuestra Familia 150 100 • Aryan Brotherhood 70 200 • Nazi Low Riders 500 50 • Black Guerrilla Family 300 150 • 50 10 • Syndicato Nuevo Mexico 10 25 • Inmates join or associate with gangs for protection, access to drugs, money and out of fear.

• Prison gangs have authority over disruptive groups.

• Prison gangs establish household rules

• Their whole purpose of being seems to revolve around the control of power and drugs within the prison system Definition: Any gang which was formed in prison by inmates.

CHARACTERISTICS PRISON GANGS

REQUIRE SPONSORSHIP ORIGINALLY INFLUENCE IS BEYOND BLOOD IN NEIGHBORHOOD BLOOD OUT

IMPOSE TAXES ON MOST STREET GANGS NON BANGERS DEFINITION: Is a term used within the California Department of Corrections to describe any gang other than a prison gang

EXAMPLES OF DISRUPTIVE GROUPS

SUREÑOS NOTERÑOS

18 STREET SEM= SALINAS EAST MARKET

BLACK ANGELS VSJ= VARRIO SAN JOSE

WHITE FENCE HANDFORD (KING COUNTY)

MARA SALVATRUCHA (Continued)

WHITE GANGS BLACK GANGS

CRIPS= EAST COAST CRIPS

PECKERWOODS HOOVER CRIPS

BLOODS= BOUNTY HUNTER SKINHEADS 415= KUMI ANO

PENI=PUBLIC ENEMEY NUMBER 1 26 PIRU

27TH STREET MAFIA BLOODS (Continued)

ASIAN GANGS

WAH CHIINGCHING

TINY GANSTER RASCALS

ASIAN CRIPS

ORIENTAL KILLER BOYS Approximate California Prison “Validated” Disruptive Group Gang Membership

Disruptive Group Members • Surenos 1800 • Nortenos 450 • Crips 1500 • Bloods 500 • Bulldogs 350 • 18th Street 200 • Skinheads 250

The City of Bakersfield is recognized as the splitting point between Norteno & Sureno Gangs Nortenos

• Bakersfield

Surenos CDCR STATISTICS

• 160,000 Prisoners in custody

• 94% Male • 35% Hispanic • $5 Billion Operating Budget+ • 30% Black • 33 State Prisons • 29% White • 6% Other • 38 Camps • Average Age: 35 • Cost per prisoner: $ 27,000 year • Average Sentence: 41 months • Cost per parolee: $ 2,800 year • Average Time Served: 24 months • 48,200 Employees of which… • Condemned Prisoners: 700+ • Lifers: 25,000+ • 29,800 are sworn peace officers Circ: 2009

Northern California Southern California • Formed in 1967 by white prisoners at San Quentin to protect themselves from other ethnic prison gangs. John Stinson • They are called AB or “The Brand” and have a “Blood In - Blood Out” membership concept.

• Symbols include: 666, shamrock, and “AB”: tend to favor color green.

• The AB has a long history of cooperating with Mexican Mafia (EME) on drug introductions, contract hits, and financial matters.

•AB members are probably the most violent, calculating, and ruthless criminals in the prison system.

“AB” This is about a guy named William Borsh, a hardcore member of the Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang. While conducting a search warrant of his home, compromising photos of him were found. When confronted with these photos, he “debriefed” and turned state’s evidence.

“William” at Folsom State Prison

“William” with a special pose A photo of some of Will’s buddies in the pen, complete with names & locations. Mexican Mafia • In 1956, a group of young Hispanics from the Maravillas area of East Los Angeles form the nucleus of the gang known as “EME” at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Ca.

• EME was born from the idea of forming a “Gang of Gangs” that would supersede the traditional territorial boundaries outside prison walls.

• EME associates itself with the southern half of the state, the color blue, and the number 13 (“M”). MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME)

Organizational Structure

• The Mexican Mafia does not have a traditional military style “chain-of-command, instead it has “influential” members.

• All members vote on decisions affecting the entire gang. If the decision is limited to a particular institution, only those members vote. Each gang member, known as a carnal, has an equal vote.

• Each Mexican Mafia member has a great deal of autonomy in conducting business. As long as there is no conflict, a carnal is his own boss. He is expected to pay 1/3 of his illicit proceeds to Mexican Mafia.

• If a Mexican Mafia member is in a prison or jail facility, he is required to assume control of all Sureños inmates. Sureños are expected to carry out Mexican Mafia orders without question.

MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME) Set of Rules • Two sets of rules govern EME activities: hard rules and gray rules.

• Hard rules may not be broken under penalty of death and include prohibitions against informing, cowardice, homosexuality, and leaving the gang.

• Breaking of gray rules, however, may not incur punishment if the member can justify his actions.

• Gray rules stipulate that a member cannot raise a hand against another member without prior permission from the gang membership, have sex with another member's wife or girlfriend, steal from a member, interfere in another member's business, or politick (lobby for votes) against another member.

• These rules also mandate that a member must participate in votes to accept new members. MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME) Alliances

• Mexican Mafia is closely associated with most Hispanic street gangs in Southern California, known collectively as Sureños or South Siders.

• These gangs pay a tribute to Mexican Mafia members to distribute drugs within a specific neighborhood, or barrio.

• The Mexican Mafia also maintains working relationships with various other prison gangs and "disruptive groups" such as Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Low Riders, , Border Brothers, and Sinaloan Cowboys.

• For example, Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood members cooperate in smuggling drugs into Custody facilities and have assisted each other in armed and drug trafficking outside Custody facilities. MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME) Adversaries

• There primary adversary is the Nuestra Familia Prison Gang and its subordinate .

• Open warfare between the Mexican Mafia and the Nuestra Familia began in 1968 at San Quentin Prison.

• The Black Guerrilla Family, an Black Prison-based gang, is another adversary of the Mexican Mafia because of its affiliation with the Nuestra Familia.

• Other adversaries of the Mexican Mafia include Asian street gangs such as the Tiny Rascals Gang, Korean Killers, and as well as Hispanic prison gangs such as the Texas Syndicate, -based New Mexican Mafia, and Texas Mexican Mafia. MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME) Drug Sales

• In the 1990’s, the EME expanded its drug distribution operations by ordering an end to drive-by shootings involving Hispanic street gang members and eventually ordering an end to rivalries among Hispanic gangs as well. This allowed the gangs to focus on drug distribution.

• Subsequently, the Mexican Mafia demanded that all Sureño- affiliated gang members pay a tribute of as much as 33 percent of drug distribution profits.

• Sureño Gangs either complied with the order, or they were targeted for killing (given a green light) by Mexican Mafia.

• The funds that the Mexican Mafia collected are used to help imprisoned members pay legal fees, support their families, and replenish their prison canteen accounts. MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME)

Shot Callers

An informal leadership structure has evolved within Mexican Mafia. Each facility housing Mexican Mafia Daniel “Wino” Grajeda inmates has an individual who runs Mexican Mafia operations, or "holds the keys," in that facility. Mexican Mafia members in leadership positions are known as “shot callers.”

Known Mexican Mafia Factions

Shot Caller(s) Original Gang Area of Influence The Grajeda Family La Rana Los Angeles County Peter "Sana" Ojeda F Troop Orange County Ruben "Tupie" Hernandez Black Angels San Bernardino/Riverside Francisco "Puppet" Martinez 18th Street Los Angeles County Raul "Huero" Sherm Leon Shelltown San Diego County Eme Shot callers in the L.A. County Jail

The following information is a snapshot in time and is constantly changing. The information is provided to make you aware that the Mexican Mafia is alive and well in the L.A. County Jail system, which they call “Headquarters”.

Alfonso “Capone” Garcia Richard “Lil One” Aguirre Alfred “Chato” Sandoval Varrio Norwalk Avenues MCJ Gang Module Arizona Maravilla MCJ 1750 TTCF

Robert “Conejo” Rodriguez Donald “Lil Man” Ortiz Alfred “Tigre” Salinas Westside Wilmas Whittier Avenues Gang Module MCJ 1750 TTCF

Frank “Bosco” Marquez Sergio “Chaco” Villa Varrio Norwalk MCJ 1750 Ceasar “Cicil” Escobar Module 2904 Rancho San Pedro TTCF James “Kimo” Rodriquez Joe “Lil Joe” Batiz Rancho San Pedro MCJ 1750 NCCF 900 Javier “Gangster” Marquez Avenues Mike “Perico” Herrara Ramon “Chubbs” Brizuela TTCF El Sereno MCJ 1750 NCCF 900

Circ: August 2005 MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME) Membership

• Traditionally, membership is limited to Mexican American males. There is no minimum age. A prospective EME member must be sponsored by at least three current gang members.

• Membership usually requires a unanimous vote by gang members throughout the California and federal prison systems. However, because communication among EME members is difficult, the Mexican Mafia in some facilities requires only a unanimous vote among those gang members at the facility.

• Recruits are selected carefully, as the sponsors are held liable for their prospect's actions. Sometimes, to prove himself worthy of membership, a prospect may be required to commit an act of violence for Mexican Mafia. While it is not a requirement for induction, all EME members are expected to eventually kill for the gang.

• Women are not permitted to join Mexican Mafia. Wives, girlfriends, and other female family members, however, play important roles within the organization because they smuggle contraband, including drugs and weapons, into the prison and provide a means of communication between incarcerated members and members on the street. MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME)

Communication

• Mexican Mafia, like many prison gangs, uses various means of communicating within and outside the prison system.

• Members and associates communicate by passing messages known as kites. Kites are written in very small text or in code. • Gang members also use lawyers, legal runners, and private investigators employed by Mexican Mafia to communicate with one another.

• Messages also are hidden in personal correspondence sent through the U.S. Postal Service.

• Personal correspondence often is sent to wives or girlfriends who forward the message or the letter itself to the intended recipient. EME HIT LIST

(Recovered during search in Men’s Central Jail) - “Hard candy” & “Personals” mean ok to kill - “Chinos” means Asians, except those from the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii Mexican Mafia Hit List MEXICAN MAFIA (LA EME)

Drug Smuggling inside the Jail

• Drugs are smuggled into the jail using various means including visitors, legal correspondence and regular mail delivery, clothing delivered for court appearances, and some corrupt employees.

• Correctional staff are restricted from thoroughly inspecting legal correspondence addressed to inmates, so gang members or associates are able to conceal drugs among legal documents sent to the inmate for review.

• Black tar , for example, has been pressed between sheets of paper intermixed with other documents. Once inside the jail, the drugs are distributed among Mexican Mafia members or sold to other inmates. • “” was a movie starring that was based on the historical origins of the Mexican Mafia.

• In the real account, Joe Morgan loses a leg to a bone infection, not a shotgun wound.

• Also, the main character played by Olmos called “Santana” is not killed by his own gang as depicted in the movie, but was killed while on a peace mission at Chino Prison by the Nuestra Familia in retaliation for a earlier hit on the NF by the EME.

• The Mexican Mafia was upset at how they were portrayed in the movie.

• As such, they put several members of the cast and crew on a hit list, including Olmos.

• The actor was given police protection and awarded a concealed weapons permit.

• Rumor has it that he paid the EME $50,000 dollars to remove his name from the hit list and agreed not to testify against them. Mexican Mafia (Folsom 1967)

Luis “Huero Buff” Flores Michael“Featherwoods” Mulhern at AbrahamLA’s Sybil “AB” Hernandez Brand Joe “Pegleg” Morgan Hawaiian Gardens Informant Sacramento, CA Maravilla Founder of EME Entered Witness In Custody Pelican Bay Died 1994 Stomach Cancer Died 1991 Alcoholism Protection early 80’s Life w/o Parole

Rudolf “Cheyenne” Cadena “Tuffy” Jessy ”Cheneno” Gordon Benjamin “Topo” Peters Bakersfield, Ca San Jose, CA Geraghty Loma Hoyo Soto Murdered by Nuestra Familia Murdered before 1976 Murdered Died 2001 Liver Cancer in 1972 at Chino Cast from the movie “American Me” (1995)

Joe “Pegleg” Morgan

Rudolf “Cheyenne” Cadena Benjamin “Topo” Peters Aka: “Santana”

Edward James Olmos La Eme Photos

“Cheko” “Muskie” Benjamin “Topo” Peters at his death Maravilla The Gymnast Runs things in LA CO Jail

“Sana” runs the Eme “Champ” runs the Eme in Orange County within the Federal System Joe Morgan at his death Circ 2002 Location of Mexican Mafia Members in Custody (Jan 2009) The ; By Chris Blatchford

The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

This book is a astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia. Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison—at the age of nineteen—Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme. What it saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone—justifiably or not—in the blink of an eye. That loyalty and iron will drove him up the ranks as a mob enforcer and ultimately to the upper echelons, where he would help rule for nearly two decades.

Chris Blatchford, with the unprecedented cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of the Mafia brothers. It is an intense, never- before-told story of a man who devoted his life to a bloody cause only to find betrayal and disillusionment.

La Nuestra Familia (NF)

• Organized in 1967 at Soledad State Prison by Hispanic prisoners to provide protection against EME exploitation.

• Has evolved into a criminal oriented gang with the goal of controlling all drugs trafficking and all illicit actives in all Northern California Prisons.

• Membership in the NF is a lifetime commitment. • The Nuestra Familia have a detailed constitution and are organized in a military type ranking system.

• Members are referred to as “C’s” or “Carnales” (Brothers).

• The executive body of the Nuestra Familia is know as “La Mesa”.

• The Mesa is selected from the leadership of the Nuestra Familia. NUESTRA FAMILIA

Northern Structure/Nuestra Raza

Norterners/Norteñs • Also known as Nuestra Raza (NR) • Primary recruiting source of the NF • Formed in 1983 at Folsom • Rank Structure & Constitution • Strive for extensive education • Lifetime commitment

• The newest recognized California Prison gang • Violent both in and outside prisons. • Formed in California Youth Authority in early 70’s. • Membership includes all races except . • Mostly made-up of . • Heavy in drug trafficking. • 2 fractions: Pro AB & Against AB (FTB “Fuck The Brand)

• Don’t eat, drink, or smoke after a black Rules of the NLR

• Don’t listen to their music

• Don’t talk or associate with a black

• If anything goes down like a fight, and the person who’s getting his butt beat is a NLR, you’re supposed to jump in and protect that person.

• You’re supposed to be cool with the Chicanos because they are with the whites in a way for protection. If something goes down and either race needs help, they’re supposed to go down with them and help with the fighting, etc.

• Everything the NLR has like “canteen” they’re to share with all of their gang. Nothing is to be refused to another member. (food, candy, cigarettes).

• When you give someone a light off your cigarette, don’t let them touch or hold it. You don’t want to catch their germs

• Violators of our rules will have to go behind the wall and fight, or will be put on the shine. In some cases both.

Various clippings, photos, weapons, and paraphernalia found during a house search of a Nazi Low Rider Prison Gang Member

“Featherwoods” at LA’s Sybil Brand These Polaroid's were recovered during a house search of a Nazi Low Rider Prison Gang member wanted for weapons violations.

Note: the configuration of the four handguns in the sign of the swastika

“The Brother’s Get Down” “Want some come get some”

“Time to get down…SWP” “Me…guess what” • Formed in the 1960’s at Soledad State Prison primarily based on politics.

• On the East Coast they go by the term “”. Many of it’s early members were “Black Panther” activists.

• Tries to control the drug trade amongst blacks in the California state prison system.

• It now aligns itself with the NF and is at war with the AB and EME.

Photos from a failed courtroom escape by a BGF member

This is a document that the BGF is having their members sign in an attempt to make them immune from the “debriefing” process. • Also known as African National Organization (A.N.O)

• Northern California “415” area code ()

• Philosophy similar to BGF

• Primary recruiting source of the BGF

• Align with Bloods and NF

• Attempts to legitimize via state politicians

• Membership restricted to hispanic inmates born in Texas

• Power split between northern and southern fractions

• Also referred to as “TS” or “The El Paso Tip”

• Not a recognized prison gang in California

• Most powerful prison gang in Texas Sindicato Nuevo Mexico

• New Mexico Prison Gang with a small membership in California prisons • Formed by Hispanic prisoners for protection and power in the early 1980’s after the New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (33 inmates killed) • Approximately 300 active members • Enemies are Texas Aryan Brotherhood, Los Carnales, and Varrio Azteca • Paramilitary structure; “Don”…”Godfather”...”General”…”Lieutenant”...

(Disruptive Groups) • A Sureno gang is basically any hispanic gang that identifies with the southern portion of the state of California (South Sider)

• Came into focus in 1930’s in Los Angeles through gangs like , Temple Street, and Maravilla.

• Associates with color blue & #13

• Largest Sureño gang is 18th street out of Los Angeles “Eighteen”

“Midget Locos”

“South Side”

“Hazard” Sureno Jail Rules (Reglas)

Recovered during Module 3400 Search at LASD Men’s Central Jail (Translated from hand written letter) Sureno Jail Rules (Reglas) (Continued) Sureno Jail Rules - Key Rules

“Drug business goes to the cell of the shot caller (White House) where 1/3 of the amount of the transaction will be set aside for the Mexican Mafia”

“Individuals who conduct “personal” drug sales will be beaten (South Side) and penalized by twice the amount of the transaction if the drug payment is late.”

“All surenos are responsible for their own handcuff keys (llaves) and weapons (Dulces).”

“Fellow surenos are to attack gang members who are from green lighted gangs. They must kill any individual (personals) they come across who is on the green light list”

“All surenos under 30 years old must carry weapons (dulces) to court.” Sureno Hit List Recovered at Men’s Central Jail. The list includes instructions to take out sworn staff and individual Deputies by name. “Lights” “Out”

“ I had a choice and I chose wrong”

When this guy closes his eyes, “I live for my Mom & Kill for my Barrio” it reads “F___ You” Location of Sureno Gangs in the United States (Jan 2009) Maravilla

Note the “Green Pride” tattoo on this Maravilla gang member. He is proud of “Welcome to a tax free varrio” being on everyone’s green light list.

• Maravilla, originally an East Los Angeles Gang, who refuses to pay taxes to the “EME” (Mexican Mafia).

• This was not enforced until the death of Eme leader Joe Morgan in 1993 who came from Maravilla. The gang has since divided into many different cliques.

• The tattoo on body symbolized, you are against “EME” and will do what you have to do, kill or assault an “EME” member or anyone who gets in your way .

• The Maravilla Gangs are on the “green light” list. • The 18th Street gang is the largest Hispanic street gang in LA.

• Established in the 1960s, now composed of 2nd and 3rd-generation gang members.

• The first 18th Street gang originated in the Rampart area of LA consisting mostly of Mexican immigrants.

• This gang recruits heavily from illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico and South America. Although primary turf oriented, gang members travel to other areas having illegal immigrants, specifically for recruitment, and sometimes start new cliques.

• Predominantly composed of Hispanics, some cliques of the 18th Street Gang recruit Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, and Caucasians.

• Tagger crews within 18th Street gang territory, which are known for their aggressive actions, are also being actively recruited to act as enforcers, sell narcotics, and collect “taxes”. 18th Street Gang

• The 18th Street gang is a collection of loosely associated sets or cliques each composed of between 10 and several hundred members.

• Membership in the gang is estimated to be 30,000 to 50,000. There is no known national leader or national charter.

• Each set consists of soldiers or street enforcers led by an older member, usually known as a veterano or Original Gangster (O.G.).

• The 18th Street gang is one of the largest and most diverse street gangs in the United States. The gang actively recruits members from all ethnic groups and from all regions of the country. An estimated 80 percent of the gang's members are illegal aliens from Mexico and .

• The 18th Street gang's principal rivals are Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran gang, and Florencia-13 (F-13), a Hispanic street gang based in East LA.

• Members tend to wear black and silver or brown and silver colored clothing, particularly apparel associated with professional sports teams such as the Oakland Raiders football team and the Sacramento Kings basketball team. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) “Nobody” “Understands”

• During the civil war in between 1984 and 1992, nearly one million refugees, many of them illegal immigrants, fled the country and settled in the United States, primarily in the Rampart section (west of downtown) in Los Angeles.

• Many of these Salvadoran youths “Just” “Us” joined the 18th Street gang which accepted the Salvadorans because many had gained valuable military experience during the civil war in El Salvador.

• Cultural differences led many of these Salvadorans to leave the 18th Street gang to begin forming Mara Salvatrucha cliques. Mara Salvatrucha (MS)

• Mara Salvatrucha, is the largest gang in the United States with more than 30,000 members throughout the United States.

• The gang also has more than 50,000 members in foreign countries, particularly El Salvador. Members of MS-13 typically are either Salvadoran nationals or first generation Salvadoran Americans; however, many cliques in the United States now accept members from , Ecuador, , , and Mexico.

• Mara Salvatrucha is a loosely structured street gang with no single leader or governing authority. However, several Los Angeles cliques have adopted a military-type organizational structure.

• MS-13 members like to wear blue and black Nike clothing & shoes. Junior members typically wear blue bandannas, and senior members wear black bandannas. There are about 400 street gangs in Orange County, California with over 20,000 members. Circ 2002

There are about 400 street gangs in Orange OrangeCounty, California with over 20,000 County members.

“F Troop” the largest gang in Orange County

Orange County “Star” Orange County • Created in the late 60’s by Hispanic gang members in Northern California to respond to attacks by Southern Hispanic gangs

• Allies of and subservient to the NF/NS

• Originally not as sophisticated as Surenos

• 14, Norte, color red

• There turf is north of Bakersfield in California Nortenos “Norte” “XIV” Border Brothers (BB)

• The Border Brothers (BB), also known as Los Mojados (The Wetbacks).

• Most came to this country illegally; many others were green card holders when they were arrested.

• The Gang consists primarily of Mexican citizens and illegal aliens.

• No known gang signs or colors associated with the Border Brothers.

• Gang members may have a tattoo of “BB” or the name “Border Brothers.” In March 2000, a kite of the Organizational and rules for the Border Brothers was confiscated and reads as follows. Fresno Bulldogs (BDS)

• Fresno Bulldogs (BDS) also known as Fresno 14 (F14).

• In 1984, at San Quentin the NF/NS attempted to recruit Fresno Street Gang members, the F14’ers resisted and began to war with NF/NS.

• 1986 the F14’ers began to refer to themselves as “Fresno Bulldogs”

• Bulldogs adopted Fresno State Bulldog logo and colors (red)

• Enemies NF/NS and Norteños

• In some prisons are loose allies of Sureños • Skinheads • Peckerwoods • American Nazi Party • Aryan Nation • Church of the Creator • • • Ku Klux Klan

• is a name originally used by inmates to describe a white convict

• White supremacist beliefs

• Currently disorganized and lack both structure and leadership

• Organize themselves based on specific geographical area

• Tattoos - “white pride or power, bolts, Peckerwood, Wood, swastikas, etc”.

“Skinhead”

“Oildale” • Began in England in early 1970’s

• Not turf oriented, racist philosophy

• Most violent of neo-Nazi groups

• Foot Soldiers for KKK &

• Nazi Skinheads, Independents, Punks (England), & SHARP’s (Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice)

• SHARP’s & Straight Edger’s are different, they war with Nazis Skinheads

“United Skins”

“L A Skins” • Made up of white teens who are an off shoot of the movement. • Take a oath of no alcohol, no tobacco, no drugs, and no promiscuous sex. • “X” has become a symbolic mark for the group. This came from the common practice at all ages punk shows where minors were marked with an “X” on there hands so they couldn’t buy alcohol. • As a act of solidarity, they began identifying with the letter “X”. • Emerged in 1940’s after “Property of Chainsaw” soldiers returned from WWII

• Men only and ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles

• Most prominent gangs in California are the Mongols, Hell’s Angels, Vagos, and Hessians

• 1% er Creed

• Traffic drugs & weapons, also murder for hire & vehicle . THE SIX LARGEST OUTLAW BIKER GANGS

• The Crips are a black street gang that was formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.

• , a student at Fremont High School in Los Angeles, founded the gang to provide protection from other gangs and to profit from criminal activity.

• The original gang adopted the name Crips when a newspaper article published in the Los Angeles Sentinel in February 1972 referred to some Cribs members who carried canes as "Crips" (for cripples).

Raymond Washington

• Crips membership is estimated at over 30,000 members in over 800 different sets, with over 13,000 members in the Los Angeles area.

• Their main source of income is street- level distribution of crack cocaine, marijuana, and PCP.

• Membership typically consists of African American men in their early 20s, although members range from 10 to 40 years old. There also are an increasing number of sets with Asian and Caucasian members.

• All members are required to take an oath and go through an initiation process. Initiation is achieved in one of three ways; by committing an armed , performing a drive-by shooting, or being beaten by members in a ceremony called a beat-in or jump-in. The initiation is intended to test the prospective member's courage and loyalty. • Crips are allied with the gangs on the East Coast.

• The alliance was established in the 1980s as a means of protecting gang members incarcerated in state and federal prison systems.

• The Crips primary rivals are Bloods Street Gangs, which they outnumber about 3 to 1.

• The Crips-Bloods rivalry began in the late 1960s when Raymond Washington and several other Crips members confronted Sylvester Scott and Benson Owens, students at Centennial High School in LA.

• Scott and Owens fought off Washington and his associates. In response to the attack, Scott, who lived on Piru Street in nearby Compton, established the Piru Street Gang, the first Bloods gang, and Owens established the Westside . • The Crips is an association of numerous structured and unstructured gangs, also known as sets, that have adopted a common gang culture.

• A set may have from three to several hundred members.

• There is no known national leader or charter.

• Crips sets in the Los Angeles area usually consist of a leader assisted by several lieutenants, a drug coordinator, soldiers, and drug couriers.

• Some Crips factions outside Los Angeles have a leadership core consisting of four or five individuals from an original Los Angeles-based set and include numerous local members and associates.

• Crips members also distinguish themselves by wearing clothing that is blue - the gang's color. However, some wear colors that reflect the name of their set, such as the Grape Street Crips wear purple • Crips members often wear the apparel of professional sports teams such as the LA Lakers basketball team or Oakland Raiders football team.

• In addition to drug sales, Crips sets launder their drug proceeds by investing in real estate and various cash-based businesses including barbershops, concert promotion companies, and music stores. Crips sets also use drug proceeds to fund recording companies and music groups. Neighborhood Crip Long Beach Insane Crips

Blood Killer • The Bloods street gang association was formed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s initially to provide members protection from the Crips street gang association.

• Sylvester Scott established the Piru Street gang and Benson Owens established the Westside Pirus after Crips members had assaulted them.

• Today the Bloods have evolved to one of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States.

• There membership is estimated to be made up of over 15,000 members nationwide, 6,000 of whom live in the Los Angeles area.

• Bloods sets are outnumbered by Crips sets three to one. In order to assert their power despite the difference in numbers, Bloods sets became increasingly violent, especially against Crips members.

• In addition to drug sales, they are involved in transporting and distributing drugs through out the United States.

• Bloods affiliate with the alliance. The People Nation alliance includes Black Peace Stones, , and Vice Lord Nation.

• Several Bloods sets are loosely aligned with Norteños gangs, particularly with Nuestra Familia. Bloods sets have aligned with Nuestra Familia in order to deter Crips sets from expanding into Northern California.

• The Bloods adversaries include gangs associated with the Folk Nation gang alliance. • Bloods are also made up of sets, that have adopted a common gang culture. A Bloods set can number three to several hundred members. There is no known national leader or national charter.

• Bloods sets in the Los Angeles area usually consist of a leader, called a shot caller, assisted by several trusted lieutenants, soldiers, and associates.

• Most soldiers, also known as gangsters, are generally between the ages of 16 and 22. "Baby gangsters" are gang members typically between the ages of 12 and 14. Baby gangsters serve as lookouts and couriers for the gang.

• Most Bloods members are African American males ranging in age from 10 to 40. However, many sets have Asian and Caucasian members. • Bloods members used words such as Piru (a street in Los Angeles) or Damu (Swahili for blood) to describe there gang as well as letters such as CK (crip killer).

• Bloods wear clothing that is red--the gang's color--although some wear colors that reflect the names of their sets. For example, members of Lime Hood Pirus wear green.

•Bloods members may often wear the apparel of professional sports teams such as the Philadelphia Phillies, the San Francisco Forty-Niners, and the Bulls. • The majority of east coast gangs fall under under the umbrella of either the “Folks” or “Peoples” Alliances.

• You can think of this as the same way “Blood” and “Crip” gangs have allied themselves on the west coast. However, the Folk or People gangs are not aligned along traditional “People” racial boundaries and both contain black, white, and Hispanic street gangs.

• “Folks” Gangs such as the Black Gangster Disciple’s associated with a six pointed star along with the pitchfork. They wear all of there identifiers on there right side, such as an earring, a pant leg rolled up, a strap on a pair of coveralls dangling to the right side or a cap titled to the “Folks” right.

“GDN” • “People” Gangs such as the Black P Stone Rangers, Latin (Gangster Disciple Nation) Kings, Vice Lords, and El Rukns wear all there identifiers on there left side. They identify with a five pointed star,a pyramid, and a crescent moon. Symbology

The “Disciples Nation” and affiliates make up the Folks alliance and the “Vice Lord Nation” and there affiliates make up the People Alliance. The west coast Crips have aligned with the Folks and the west coast Bloods have aligned with the People. 159 160 East Coast and West Coast Rappers are at war with each other as evident by the “Tupac” and “Biggie Smalls” Slayings A FEW KNOWN OR SUSPECT RAPPER - GANG AFFILATIONS

“Ice-T”…………………...…...Hoover Crip “Ice Cube”…………….….…N-Hood Crip “Snoop Dog”…Long Beach Insane Crip “Warren G”……………..Rollin’ 20’s Crip “Easy-E”………………....Kelly Park Crip “Cypress Hill”….89th St Family Bloods “Coolio”…………..…Corner Pocket Crip “”……………….….Mob Piru

• Asian gangs in the United States got there start shortly after the end of the when thousands of immigrants migrated to the United States.

• Among these immigrants were criminals who prey on there own kind, for which they understood and related too.

• New immigrants were particularly vulnerable to crime because they were reluctant to go to the police.

• These new Asian gangs specialized in , drug trafficking, prostitution, and gambling.

• Asian gangs tend to be young (13-25), very violent, and are often more sophisticated than other gangs.

• Some Asian gang members will go to great lengths to conceal there gang affiliations.

• They will often attempt to explain away tattoos or markings as being non-gang related. Oriental Killer Boys (LAOS)

“Power” Pacific Islander Gangs • Street gangs from Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti and the Philippines • Examples include “Sons of Samoa”, “Fresh off the Boat” (FOB), Pinoy Real, and the “Scott Park Killers”. “Cuban” “Pride”

• In 1980, Fidel Castro declares any Cuban who wants to leave Cuba, can leave.

• President Jimmy Carter admits 3,500 Cubans. Castro sends his criminals and mentally ill to the United States. This was called the “Marielito Boat Lift”

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