In a city full of secrets, Ralph Guy Rocha kept more than most. As a member of the Mexican Mafia, Rocha was pursuing a deal with a drug cartel in Mexico called La Familia. The cartel had proposed ...

Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Samuel “Negro” Villalba was found shot to death in a homeless camp in 2021, years after the Mexican Mafia kicked him out and put a target ...

An incarcerated San Mateo man was one of five alleged gang members federally indicted on racketeering and drug offenses that were carried out by the Mexican Mafia prison gang, the U.S. Department ...

Matt Rocha was once a rising star in the Nuestra Familia prison gang, but now he’s someone the gang would likely murder at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Thorr Gatlin, 40, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years' supervised release in a Martin County drug case. MARTIN COUNTY − A 40-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

In Sinaloa province, Mexican troops have largely contained an ongoing war between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. The border is less porous, says someone involved in the fentanyl trade there. It ...