Anti-gang activist gets jail for drug, gun charges
From Times Staff Reports
An anti-gang activist who pleaded no contest to gun and drug charges was sentenced Friday to 32 months in jail.
Mario Antonio Corona, 30, who helped find jobs for gang members as former director of development for the Communities in Schools program, was arrested in February after officers found a pound of methamphetamine in his car. Police later searched his home and found a handgun.
Corona earned an undergraduate degree from Cal State Northridge and a master’s degree in social work from USC.
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