I said, Yeah, I could rap like that, whatever. 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. Each day, the ranking member might assign a topic to his subordinates; by days end, a 1,500-word written essay was due. Robert Brown Bob Viramontes was 44 and had shared cells with Nuestra Familias founding fathers in Soledad. Otherwise, he was free to go about his business. Were moving your ass. You dont have a choice. And the transfer led to internal power struggles played out in the streets, police say. After he was expelled, his parents sent him back north to live with an aunt in Pittsburg, where he continued to carouse. He kept a stable of flashy cars, but favored a cherried-out 1969 Impala with a vanity license plate that read NORTENO.. Its just the way it is, Sir Dyno says. Blacks sided with the Black Guerrilla Family or the Five Percenters. A few years earlier, the two attorneys had nailed former general Pinky Hernandez for ordering a murder, and Cuete wanted to offer their coffins as a gift to Pinky. They dont want guys to get close; it blurs the lines. Frias, a 22-year-old Salinas native, maintains that Hernandez, the informant, approved the "green light," the execution order, on Sanchez while working for the FBI. All rights reserved. I was getting my game back, Lizard said. But the state prison guards union and correctional officials have argued that to mix inmates now would only bring more violence. Finally, brothers were required to learn sign language so they could make the most of the one hour outside their cells. had pulled down between $50,000 and $80,000. In his role as head of security, Cuete was responsible for stashing the groups original constitution among his legal papers, and keistering the gangs master hit list in his rectum, according to FBI documents. Prosecutors say the 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 . I see the reality of things now and now that Ive gone through that, theres, like, no glory in it, you know?. Monday. Police1 is revolutionizing the way the law enforcement community crimes from Salinas to the Oregon border. And one critic of his tenure as an informant even charges that the FBIs leash on Lizard was so loose that the government turned a blind eye to the killing of a Salinas drug dealer. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. I wanted to be that NF member who the people could count on, Lizard recalled. He is currently a gang instructor at the FBI Headquarter's in-service nationwide training program for field agents. And in another case, according to his handlers, Lizard drove to Lodi with Happy Cervantes for a weekend getaway, where he left his wire behind and failed to stay in touch with the FBI. Lizards government handlers ultimately boasted that their prized informant delivered unprecedented effectiveness as a cooperating witness. According to a memo by prosecutors in the US Attorneys Office, his unshakable undercover effort will forever leave its mark in the history of law enforcement. Based on Lizards grand jury testimony alone, the US Attorneys office estimates that twenty Nuestra Familia members pleaded guilty, and five others were convicted in courts across Northern California. And frankly, heres a guy whos committed numerous violent crimes, and hes getting a free pass. One of those footnotes involves Sir Dyno who, despite his history of gangsta-rap posturing, clearly is not a criminal on a par with his codefendants. 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I wanted my brothers to eventually put me in a position that would enable me to push the Familia into the future, on a profound level.. He suggested that gang members cook our own shit to gain control, saying he could make twenty pounds of raw meth in one batch. Its not easy.. Were going to take care of it tonight., But then he talked about looking the other way. He told his carnal, We got more on the table than just a fight for powder. Grattons information cast a domino effect, eventually leading to 21 cooperating witnesses for the government. These divisions werent just cultural. He was all business, all the time.. He said that was where he picked up the nickname Lizard, from friends who admired his clandestine nature.. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. Prosecutors remained high on their star witness, notwithstanding Agent Ragans conclusion: Mr. Over the next four years, Lizard and Cuete masterminded and penned more than three thousand letters, according to an FBI report. But such divisions run deeper among Mexican Americans than among other Californians. There was also the lean and smooth figure of Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, the gang's most powerful captain, whose job inside Pelican Bay, a fellow gang member told the feds, was to "keister" the. Sureos tended to be more-recent immigrants who often disparaged Norteos as second-generation Latinos who groveled for agricultural jobs and neglected their mother tongue, according to Joseph Hernandez, a criminal justice professor at Sacramento State University and expert in Latino gangs. Click here to follow the step-by-step murder of Brown Bob, as conducted from inside prison walls. Gratton, already growing weary with the gang after learning that one of his closest allies, Robert Brown Bob Viramontes, had been murdered outside his Campbell home, ignored Rubalcabas letters. According to grand jury testimony, Lizard sent a coded letter that eventually reached Antonio Chuco Guillen just before he was paroled from San Quentin. His shackled codefendants didnt even look at him as he took his seat among them. slated for Sept. 13 in San Francisco, is Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba In April 2001, FBI agents, along with assistance from 24 local and state agencies, ended Operation Black Widow. Its getting airtime on radio stations in the Central Valley, and Sir Dyno has gone into super-marketing campaign mode, making a goal to get the ballad single Daddys Home in rotation on 75 radio stations nationwide. Sir Dyno believed hed just made a wise career choice. After the informant completed his undercover work, I discovered that the informant had engaged in unauthorized drug deals, Agent Ragan wrote. "He's trying to regroup these guys. CD turned out to be one of about fifty disks the prolific rapper has appeared on in the past ten years, and the most militant in its norteo ideology. That was their fuck-up. It's the most comprehensive and trusted online destination for law enforcement agencies and police departments worldwide. 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. David Rochas arrest report depicts a guy caught off guard. At night, he ordered rows of Nuestra Familia inmates to recite aloud Aztec war chants to rattle guards and enemies. If Nuestra Familia invested in meth labs, a network was already in place. federal racketeering case, according to court papers. But Lizard hadnt exactly gone straight. The album would preach the unification of norteos Chicanos born north of an invisible border located somewhere around Fresno who, once inside the prison system, were eligible to join Nuestra Familia. He told them about the codes, the phony law firm, the bank accounts. 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. 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. In the weeks leading up to Lizards arrest, Kayln Santiagos apartment had been stormed by FBI agents. Hed been Cuetes right hand for four years. Even now, he talks about the incident with the distance that soldiers put between themselves and their wartime deeds. Gratton, meanwhile, had Sir Dyno write out a business plan, which offers a glimpse of the rappers instinct to use shock value to boost sales: By releasing G.U.N. Eventually, he returned there, unable to cope with life in the slow lane. It wasnt quite the impression he wanted to make. And he had better news: Nuestra Familia pot and speed were piping through Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento. At first, Sir Dynos lead attorney Rosalind Manson thought she had a slam-dunk, a bring-on-the-First Amendment, lets-end-it-now case. His teen angst surfaced one day when he threatened to kill his vice principal. And I did my time for what I was doing. Sir Dyno accepts this rivalry, and its where many of his raps come from. He says theres a street code: You dont ever ask too many questions, and both men stuck to that code. They were much smaller than the Mexican Mafia, so they used it to their advantage, gang expert Jared Lewis said. I want to be with my family/but I killed a man yesterday.. Fourteen of those charged in federal court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana . After that, he said, I didnt want any speculation coming my way because we still had meetings to take care of. Lizard said he compensated by assisting in unauthorized drug and arms deals. Nobody expects you to rap exactly what your life is. Gang affiliation in California is often a matter of geography, but for Daniel Hernandez it wasnt that simple. 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. Youre hot, the underboss said. The boss reminded Gratton that the money belonged to the gang, and demanded more deposits into Nuestra Familia bank accounts. Any brother who steps outside and then returns is automatically put on probation. Rocha still did not understand the charge or why he was being placed into custody. Or were they? In the meantime, Holguin had talked to Lizards sister and made a plea: Tell Danny to change his life. They made their beds, and so did Bob. Nuestra Familia generals James "Tibbs" Morado, Cornelio Tristan and James "Pinky" Hernandez, and captains Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba and Tex Hernandez were already serving life sentences in California when they were indicted by a federal grand jury in 2001. "There's family members still loyal to the guys in the fed," he said, referring to the exiled former generals and captains in Colorado. He told his commander that hed received an order from Cuete to kill two deputy district attorneys, a husband and wife team in San Jose named Kitty and Charles Constantinides. According to grand jury testimony from family members, Bobs wife was just about to call him in for dinner when a Ford Explorer pulled up to the curb. Californias most fearsome prison is located near the Oregon border, a windswept fortress surrounded by three walls and two barbed-wire fences. All norteos must unite with the determination to fight and challenge all those who oppose our unity and advancement toward equal justice. Rubalcaba is accused in court papers of ordering There was Henry Happy Cervantes, built like a fire hydrant, who got caught on an FBI wire offering to murder two Santa Clara County district attorneys. "DC Cervantes is calling the shots," said J.R. Auten, a former gang investigator for state prisons and now a consultant for federal and state law enforcement. But witnesses corralled by police later refused to work with the district attorney. All rights reserved. Hed proved he had the muscle to ascend within Nuestra Familia. And in response, FBI documents indicate that street soldiers in Nuestra Familia have ordered a two-year moratorium on murders while they wait for recent publicity to fade. I didnt have a choice, he recalled. He always offered to learn more and do more to serve the organization. Ribota declined comment for this story, in light of the upcoming trial. The theory went, if we separated the two gangs, wed have less problems, Vasquez said. It wasnt worth it to me anymore., Yet the claim that the rapper was blissfully unaware of Grattons gang connections doesnt pass the sniff test for law-enforcement guys like Jared Lewis. If it read Hello Love!, it was every eighth word. At home, Sir Dyno says hes just waiting for the truth to come out, but the phrase emerges like one thats been worn out, a fortification against the harsher truth: He stands to lose everything. He seems likely to face civil and/or criminal penalties for what appears to be at best mismanagement and at worst blatant corruption that. As a kid growing up in this small town, David Rocha was a freestyle BMXer who bounced along on one wheel during Fourth of July parades. He returned to San Quentin in June of 1994 to begin his sentence. Now he had to prove he had a mind to match. After Gratton ratted out his fellow gang members one by one, offering a list of 350 names, he was moved into the federal Witness Relocation Program. Joe Gonzales orders the murder of familiano Richard Hernandez for failing to carry out orders. His character on the track writes a letter to his daughter, apologizing for his absence while she grows up. But Lizards exploits show how prison policies adopted to control gangs such as Nuestra Familia may actually have helped them bloom. One month later, he was visited by Louie Holguin, a special agent with the Department of Corrections who monitored parolees and prison gangs. Years earlier, a young Norteo paroled from Pelican Bay had given a Santa Rosa detective a lead into the prison gang. By the time Dyno got to the specially constructed federal courtroom, he was fifteen minutes behind schedule. 15 year old Carlos "Casper" Silva a Preston parolee is arrested murders 3 people witin a seven week span on behalf of Nuestra familia. Rocha then asked for what was he being arrested, indicating he did not understand the charge. Anytime he drove out of the area, he had to call Ragan or his partner. With the prison population growing so fast, they had their pick, Lewis said. Cuete was among the final holdouts. But he was undergoing a lot. Since at least the 1920s, many California Latinos have thought of themselves in the same way that other residents of the state divide themselves: as Northern Californians, or Norteos; and Southern Californians, or Sureos. On one Gang Stories track about issuing payback on the cops, a voice in the background calls out Detective Ribotas name, a suggestion to watch his back. His teen angst surfaced one day when he threatened to kill his vice principal. Quoting the prophet Jeremiah from the Old Testament, Bishop Manuel Cruz, a Cuban emigre himself, passionately said: "Woe to me if I do not care for my people and hear their cries." A huge warehouse complex project is before the American City Council. The eradication was criticized by some prison gang experts, citing that Eme members now filled a power vacuum, and that future Norteos, outnumbered and alone, would only serve as bait. Im a Northerner, he says, arms wide. Over an ominous keyboard drone, he speaks deliberately, as if issuing a UN speech: The primary purpose and goals of this album is to promote unity amongst each and every one of us as norteos. [Gratton] said he was sick and tired of going to prison, he didnt want to go back, he wants to be legitimate, Dyno recalls, so he wants to sell cars and start a record company. In the early 1970s, gang fights which were called race riots then became more common inside the prisons. When it concluded in April 2001, after a $5 million investment, it was one of the largest takedowns on a prison gang in US history. This arrest data includes all information on current and previous arrests for . Sicc OG. Even though the project had cash potential tomorrow, Sir Dyno still needed money today. I am just as dangerous as they are.. FBI agents did not respond to interview requests. By 1965, Sureos outnumbered Norteos by roughly seven to one inside the prison system. According to one source, Ribota took the CD to the San Joaquin County district attorneys office to see if it constituted an official threat to a police officer. Its a tough call. When the five were transferred out of California, Gov. Besides directing the tone of the project, Gratton asked to narrate the intro. After a Nuestra Familia-led intifada left Folsom State Prison wet with blood, officials transferred most if not all of that facilitys Norteos to other state institutions. The rules were simple: Lizard had to record all his phone conversations with gang members and wear a wire when he held stings set up by the FBI. But a year into the case, the governments complaint against Sir Dyno shifted course. Lizard reminded his brothers about the warriors in Pelican Bay. Lizard swung his weight around hard. He was more than just a studio rapper, he says. Napa's downtown parking meters were removed three decades ago. The rapper arrived dressed in neatly pressed beige Dickies pants, spotless work boots, and an untucked flannel-print shirt a vato in his Sunday best, mumbling his apologies. A general named Art Big Smiley Ramirez was transferred from Pelican Bay to the cell directly below his own. Still, the weekend he got out, he was intent on getting paid. The three ounces found in Sir Dynos car, Gratton was claiming, came from him a statement which, if true, puts Sir Dyno squarely within the gang conspiracy. Lizard said he beat Ruiz to a pulp with his fists, bringing his victim close to death. One morning this past August, Sir Dyno sat in his Dodge Caravan, stuck in I-580 traffic, knowing hed be late for his court hearing in San Francisco. Nuestra Familia prestige is now generational, passed from father to son, uncle to nephew. He told Ramirez there should be no bloodshed. But then he added: If something comes at us, you cant help it. But at the time, it seemed like the right thing to do. I was giving them a taste of something they wanted for a long time. You have permission to edit this article. Regardless, the compilation had limited success, and never took off like the G.U.N. Lizard and the government deny this accusation. Not only had he given up his post on the street, but now theyd be suspicious that he was a narc. One such order last year told Norte-os across Northern California to clean the streets of Sure-os. Back among the general prison population, Lizard reported to his ranking captain, Gerald Cuete Rubalcaba, one of the gangs most revered members. He was sentenced to 29 years to life in prison. Frias was not indicted in the federal case but was convicted of murdering Sanchez in a state case built on the FBI's investigation. And I got caught what I was doing. In June, one California prison experimented with another solution to the Norteo-Sureo war. You wont catch me slipping. Investigators ended Operation Black Widow in June of 2001. He was very concerned about his familys safety, his safety. The thought of slashing his cousin made no sense. As gang-on-gang violence grew in the late 1970s, prison administrators also began housing Norteos and Sureos in separate cells. Though vastly outnumbered, Nuestra Familia distinguished itself by organizing its troops along strict paramilitary lines. He told the young man that if he wanted to be recognized by Nuestra Familia, he could appeal to the generals. That leaves Cervantes, who has always kept a keen eye on Salinas affairs, firmly in control as the organization's only general. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. And when that rhyme ran out, as it usually does, he went where other rappers go to make up for the sudden loss of material: He started making shit up. But rumors about G.U.N. This time, Goose brought bar charts to show drug production and expected net profits. Once that dried, the correspondent would write another letter in ink on the page, but the recipient knew to hold it up to the light to read the real message. Not at all coincidentally, Pelican Bay also has become the headquarters of Nuestra Familia. Lizard already knew all the old tricks. The federal indictment named 13 members, including Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, the boss who greenlighted Viramontes, and the two other reigning La Mesa members, James "Tibbs" Morado and Cornelio "Corny" Tristan. Lizard has a thick handlebar mustache, broad shoulders, and is engraved with prison tattoos in Old English script. October 10, 1976. Black tattoo ink scribbled across their forearms and crawled up their necks, and some of them hid stone-faced beneath dark Ray-Ban-style glasses. To avoid raising suspicion as a frequent mailer, she set up post-office boxes and had inmates write to other Norteos, who forwarded the correspondence to her. But paid parking could return, in some form, this year, as the city works to pu. Eager to shore up his status in Nuestra Familia, Lizard said, he soon stabbed Sureo Rudolpho Castillo in the throat, nearly killing him. While working as an informant, he tested positive for drug use. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Today, the real Sir Dyno has five kids, a home in Tracy, and makes a living off CD sales, which he estimates at beyond 100,000 nationwide. He said that after he drove away from a successful arms sale in the South Bay, at which he wore a wire, one of his underbosses called to warn him he was being tailed by a suspicious car, which Lizard knew was the investigator. Sir Dyno, however, isnt charged with any individual crime, just one count of RICO conspiracy, and his connection to that crime seems to be largely related to his performance on Generations of United Norteos. Jan 27, 2005. At a hearing last month, Steven Gruel, US assistant attorney and Chief of Major Crimes, told the court that Sir Dynos limited role with Nuestra Familia made no difference under the law: It doesnt matter if you associate with a RICO enterprise for five years or five minutes; it still makes you part of the conspiracy.. I know theres some things you dont ask., Dyno claims thats the moment he realized hed been duped and would never see his cash. If he was going to hold the case together, hed need to account for his own alleged crimes as a snitch. Hernandez has conducted himself as a cooperating witness with great dignity and character, a memo from the US Attorneys office stated. While awaiting sentencing for armed robbery, he said, he knifed a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in self-defense. A small minority within the gang has not transferred loyalty to Cervantes, Santa Cruz County's Morales said. I fear no organization. From the prisons to the jails, all over California, you have to claim a side, Vasquez said. According to court documents, Gratton says he regularly fronted Sir Dyno four ounces at a time. Kids everywhere were listening to it, and closely. According to his informants, Lewis says, Sir Dyno was indeed just as the rapper portrays himself before Gratton came to town: broke, and desperate to get famous. Man, Im from the streets. The next rung of leaders in Pelican Bay includes Daniel "Stork" Perez of Salinas; Anthony "Chuco" Guillen of San Jose, who was involved in the murder of a Nuestra Familia member there and is serving a 25-year sentence; and George "Puppet" Franco, 39, from San Jose, responsible for the gang's activities in Stockton, Tracy and Fresno. These defendants wisely elected to plead guilty rather than face the prospect of Mr. Hernandez appearance as a trial witness against them.. It was his way or the highway. He told them he could go undercover for them. The rappers story varies somewhat depending on whos doing the telling. After the gang member sent word to his people on the street, the witnesses to Lizards crime were persuaded not to show up for trial. Special Agent Kelly explained to Rocha that he was being placed under arrest for violation of RICO conspiracy, the report states. In hindsight, the move only solidified the stature of race-based gangs, said Daniel Vasquez, a former San Quentin prison warden and gang investigator. My stuff has softened up a lot, Sir Dyno says. Jared Lewis, a former Modesto gang investigator, says the impact of G.U.N. Lizard got away with it, and when Big Smiley emerged, he personally sponsored Lizard into Nuestra Familia. In a way, its a compliment to me. Shes not liking it too much. And though prison officials recently reorganized the housing in a way that slows down gang communications, coded directives are still smuggled out that translate to violence in California cities and farm towns. The amount of violence attributed to the men inside the courtroom and their associates on the outside was staggering: fifteen killings, eighty conspiracies to murder, ten attempted murders, ten felony assaults, one hundred assaults, and two drive-by shootings. Lizard says the drug was merely Vicodin, a pain reliever he took after strenuous workouts at the gym. They taught him to grind down plastic shampoo bottles into shanks for knifing an attacker, and to roll up the pages of National Geographic as makeshift spear handles. He told his interviewers Sir Dyno put out Gang Stories without permission and, for that, was very close to being placed on a hit list.. If he went back to Pelican Bay, his elders would be upset to see him. Lizard wrote Big Smiley a wila, or small letter the size of a gum wrapper. Days later, Big Smiley sent Lizard his own wilas, as well as books on Chicano history. And then I told him, You know who I am. Lizard said he wrote to a member of the Black Guerrillas whom hed met in San Quentin. I wanted to get out of there, to come to California and do what I needed to do.. According to Lewis, the gang grew from about a thousand members in the late 80s to more than two thousand just six years later. It was again explained to Rocha that Kelly was an FBI agent, and that Rocha was being placed under arrest for RICO conspiracy. 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 Holguin was well known to Nuestra Familia members hed interviewed hundreds of them during his three decades in the system. Nuestra Familia is organized in a military-like hierarchy, with generals running the gang from inside prison and paroled regiment captains running the streets outside. In his interview with FBI agents the next day, Gratton confessed hed concocted the idea for G.U.N. When the cheerleading coach broke the news to Katrina Kohel that she was the only one left on the cheer squad, Kohel was determined to compete anyway. After three decades, Nuestra Familia is now an institution on Northern California streets and is spreading rapidly through the suburbs of the Central Valley, gang investigator Lewis said. Whatever you want. That 50 percent looked like gold., Sir Dyno claims he never asked where Gratton got his money, and whether or not the jury believes that could be key to his fate. Helton checked out Grattons business licenses, and learned of Sir Dynos involvement through the music distributor. In the aftermath, some of the gang's thousands of Norte-o associates -- street-level soldiers who answer to Nuestra Familia -- stayed loyal to the exiled generals and captains, while others looked to Pelican Bay because the gang's written constitution said its leaders must reside there. Im just going to wait for the trial.. dozens of murders while imprisoned at Pelican Bay, including Lizard had made other deals, too. 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