Federal prosecutors have announced a sweeping racketeering case against the leaders of the Mexican Mafia that controlled Latino street gangs in Orange County, California. The indictment against three members of the group and 28 associates includes allegations of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking. The criminal case is aimed at dismantling the leadership that took control of the enterprise after the former kingpin who controlled all of the gang’s activity in the county for decades died in prison four years ago.
Twenty-one of those charged were already in custody and nine others were arrested in the past two days. One remained a fugitive.
The 106-page indictment charges members of the group with conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, committing violent crimes to aid racketeering, conspiring to traffic drugs, dealing methamphetamine and heroin, and firearms charges. The Mexican Mafia is made up of the leaders of different street gangs and is largely run from inside California prisons and jails. Leaders direct associates to collect “taxes” on drugs proceeds and order hits on enemies or people who violate their rules.in Orange County, calling shots from inside prison. After his death in 2018, at least three men filled the leadership void, prosecutors said.
The Mexican Mafia started in the 1950s at a juvenile jail and grew to an international criminal organization that has controlled smuggling, drug sales and extortion inside California's jail system, which is the largest in the U.S.
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