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Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy with smuggling heroin into a jail where he was ...
Michael Lerma, 68, was convicted of racketeering and murder in a trial that showed how he called the shots for gangs in his ...
Four men federal authorities describe as gang members from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Mafia were found guilty of murder Friday. A jury found Michael Lerma, 68, a.k.a. "Pomona Mike" and "Big Mike, ...
After a 20-day trial, a jury on Friday found four gang members from Pomona and Mexican Mafia members guilty of racketeering-related crimes, including the murder of a federal inmate at the Metropolitan ...
There are almost 140 members of the Mexican Mafia, most incarcerated in prisons or jails, according to the U.S. Attorney’s ...
Federal prosecutors also successfully prosecuted four Pomona gang members and Mexican Mafia associates who were recently found guilty of racketeering and first degree murder of a Metropolitan ...
Read more: How the Mexican Mafia’s 'Pomona Mike' made L.A.’s federal jail his fiefdom A Los Angeles Police Department ...
Federal prosecutors are reconsidering whether to pursue the death penalty for reputed Orange County Mexican Mafia boss Johnny ...
A Mexican Mafia member who controlled drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of prisoners inside the Los Angeles County jail system pleaded guilty on Monday, April 7, to a federal ...
LOS ANGELES -- In Pomona, Michael Lerma is a “mythical” figure, his attorney says. Lerma, 68, hasn’t walked the streets of his hometown on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County since the ...