Everyone says they want to rap, says they want to make CDs, but David was really doing it. In September, the final eight defendants pleaded guilty, following the first thirteen members indicted. But life was still rough, he says, and drug deals and violence went down in front of his eyes, even if it was what he calls mostly high school stuff, kid stuff, stupid stuff. He admits to selling pot, but only small-time, just enough to support myself., From those experiences, he says, he extrapolated in his art, and began rapping in that netherworld of myth, that place where facts give way to the cushion of fiction, where arrogance and boasting overtake the narrative. The official list of charges, which included more than thirty drug-related crimes along with acts of extortion and robbery, simply ended with the open-ended clause and other numerous crimes.. Hed turned his parents garage into a makeshift studio, recorded cassettes, and sold them at low-rider shows and East Bay record stores. He smoked pot and tasted alcohol. But as his FBI handlers dug further into Lizards tenure as their employee, they unraveled other disturbing facts that threatened to compromise the credibility of their star witness. In the aftermath of Operation Black Widow, the five highest-ranking leaders of Nuestra Familia, James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez, were transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado. Lizard said he was forced into performing the unauthorized drug deals after an investigator from Santa Clara County nearly blew his cover. Inside the state prison system, norteos side with Nuestra Familias syndicates, and sureos with La Eme, aka the Mexican Mafia. The shooters blasted Brown Bob with seven shots to his arms, chest, back, and legs. Lizard and the government deny this accusation. There was Henry "Happy" Cervantes, built like . Outside prison walls, the reach and violence of Nuestra Familia had only grown. All norteos must unite with the determination to fight and challenge all those who oppose our unity and advancement toward equal justice. Following instructions from the generals, Cuete put out a hit on Brown Bob. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. Not long after Gang Stories came out, Gratton released North Stars second title, a compilation called Cuete. The voice doesnt sound like Sir Dynos, but officers in the streets took offense. A few weeks later, the rapper signed a new contract with Dog Day Records and quickly released an album called Gang Stories. Louis G Rubalcaba, 15826 Silvergrove Drive, South Whittier / Sunshine Acres CDP, CA 90604 Find homes for sale, market statistics, foreclosures, property taxes, real estate news, agent reviews, condos, neighborhoods on Blockshopper.com And he had better news: Nuestra Familia pot and speed were piping through Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento. Over the next four years, Lizard and Cuete masterminded and penned more than three thousand letters, according to an FBI report. Cervantes added that hed already followed the couple to the courthouse. In its fifteen years of operation, at least a dozen inmates have been strangled to death inside its walls, according to lawsuits and published reports. With most prison gangs who try and use the mail, theres a big lag time things get lost, hits get reversed so theres a lot of miscommunication. A judge will decide in December whether his cooperation as an informant outweighs his considerable criminal past. He was a loyal and merciless soldier until a foolish parole violation threatened to send him back to prison, where his own safety was in question. Latinos, although initially thrown together, had to choose Norteo or Sureo. He said that was where he picked up the nickname Lizard, from friends who admired his clandestine nature.. Now, at 22, Frias has been sentenced to a prison term of 29 years to life for the gang-ordered execution of Raymond Sanchez at Cap's Saloon in downtown Salinas. Three leaders soon emerged at Pelican Bay, filling the ranks of the gang's mesa, or board of directors: David "DC" Cervantes of Chino, Jose "Huerito" Gonzalez and James "Conejo" Perez. I told him, Listen. If he went back to Pelican Bay, his elders would be upset to see him. They had all their dirty laundry to air out and they were allowing those agendas to decide how they acted, what they wanted the gang to do, how they were conducting affairs within the gang. It looked like they were unhappy with the content of G.U.N., Manson says, and thats why David was indicted for the content of his music. In his interview with FBI agents the next day, Gratton confessed hed concocted the idea for G.U.N. But if we want to prepare these people for integration to society, maybe we need to integrate them in the prison first, get them used to living with different peoples.. crimes from Salinas to the Oregon border. Regardless, the compilation had limited success, and never took off like the G.U.N. He was sentenced to six months in the prisons infamous Secured Housing Unit, where more than a thousand inmates spend 23 hours a day triple-locked inside individual cells, with only a small food slot as a window. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, If you need further help setting your homepage, check your browsers Help menu, Copyright 2013 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved, New police chief hired at N.C. 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Lizards letters were sent to code breakers at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Outside for the first time in decades, he was fashioning a new life in suburban Campbell with his wife and two sons. The following day, Ray Sanchez walked into Caps Saloon, unaware that hed been the discussion of a hit. had pulled down between $50,000 and $80,000. A small star on his forehead suggested hed killed someone in prison, even though, in truth, he hadnt. By now, rumors were swirling that G.U.N. Sir Dyno wanted to make a name for himself, Lewis says, so he sold his soul to the devil. Or were they? I was giving them a taste of something they wanted for a long time. Therefore John Ashcroft is a chicken.. One day two months ago, federal agents arrived at her home, and she was swept into the program. Even though theyd heard about the hit in advance, FBI agents never told Sanchez he was marked for violence. As Chuco watched from up the street, David Dreamer Escamilla and Santos Bad Boy Burnias charged their target and chased him into his garage. Fourteen of those charged in federal court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana . Bakersfield was the traditional dividing point, but with the crush of immigration, the numerically superior Sureos pushed the demarcation line further north, first to Fresno and then to Modesto. I also learned the informant was skimming money from the Nuestra Familia street leaders and not reporting this to me.. Last year, a newly revised constitution for the gang was distributed through underground channels, allowing for change in the mesa's structure, said Santa Cruz County sheriff's Sgt. We shared a common goal, and that goal was to be the very NF members who put the organization back on track.. He was a criminal too. He and his team of agents tore through Lizards hotel room, looking for evidence to send him back to the clink a bag of pot, a letter to a carnal, a bag of speed. The words didnt sound right to Lizard. One such order last year told Norte-os across Northern California to clean the streets of Sure-os. Salinas underboss Alberto Larez estimated that over the last ten years hed sent Cuete and the generals 40, 45 thousand dollars.. Meanwhile, Lizard received government paychecks totaling more than $52,000 for his seven months of work, according to FBI reports. The large XIV across his throat represented the fourteenth letter of the alphabet, N, for Norte. A member of the Mexican Mafia, Ortiz was cast out of the criminal organization in the mid-1990s after angering . When Lizard arrived in January of 1995, he checked in with the ranking gang member. Like other major prison gangs, including the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia issues orders from its power base in the Security Housing Unit of Pelican Bay. The Apprehension Teams scrutiny proved to be Sir Dynos downfall. I could rap political, I could rap street, it doesnt matter, Sir Dyno says. They didnt care about agendas like that.. Then in late April 2001, more than two years since hed last spoken to Robert Gratton, he was summoned to a meeting with his parole officer. Lizard said that whenever brothers were allowed into the law library, they used sign language to swap information, trade intelligence reports, and even assign homework. In the logic of the Chicano intrastate rivalry, there are norteos and sureos, and even if youre not running with the corner gang, youre still vulnerable to getting whacked by your enemy. The rapper says hed press Gratton for cash, but the label owner always had an excuse. 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