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Jose Luis Saenz spent 14 years on the run after he was linked to a string of brazen murders. Authorities eventually tracked him down in Mexico — but not before he popped back up on the doorstep of a man who’d lost half a million in drug money.
A man accused of talking his way past the front desks of posh Beverly Hills hotels and walking off with millions of dollars in jewelry admitted Tuesday that he stole a guest’s diamond necklace valued at $395,000.
Nelson Abrego’s burgeoning career as Swifty Blue has drawn the attention of the Mexican Mafia. According to sources, he faced extortion and a jailhouse attack.
The Los Angeles Fire Department was alerted at 5:38 p.m. Saturday to the blast in the 7300 block of Woodman Avenue, according to Connor Thompson, an LAFD spokesman.
The case offers yet another illustration of how the Mexican Mafia controls and extracts money from inmates held at the nation’s largest jail complex.
A defense attorney was charged in a federal indictment with conspiring to murder a Mexican Mafia member who had fallen out of favor with the prison-based syndicate.
Authorities still have not identified a shooter in the 2013 killing of Rigoberto Dupre at a South L.A. auto repair shop, but prosecutors allege an associate had orchestrated it over a real estate scam that netted $375,000 in gold coins.
The owner of a Compton tire shop is locked in a dispute with city officials over selling low-cost tires to people suspected of performing burnouts and other illegal maneuvers. The shop owner says he cannot control what customers do with the tires they buy.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot a man wielding a shotgun while responding to a robbery in Norwalk on Saturday, authorities said.
The syndicate once relied on associates on the streets, but court data showed that smuggled phones have given imprisoned leaders greater control over drug deals.
