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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 28, 2017, 01:40:51 pm

Title: Los Angeles man with ties to Mexican Mafia sentenced to more than 13 years for distributing methamphetamine to street gangs
Post by: rangerrebew on March 28, 2017, 01:40:51 pm
Transnational Gangs
03/02/2017

Los Angeles man with ties to Mexican Mafia sentenced to more than 13 years for distributing methamphetamine to street gangs

LOS ANGELES – A gang member with ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang was sentenced Monday to more than 13 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine to street gangs in the community of Bell Gardens.

Guillermo Ruiz, known on the street as “Weasel,” 42, of Bell Gardens, was sentenced to 160 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald. The case is the result of a large-scale investigation into Bell Gardens street gangs by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/los-angeles-man-ties-mexican-mafia-sentenced-more-13-years-distributing