A woman with enough power in organized crime
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By: EFE
Saturday, November 2
“Señora”, a collaborator of the Mexican Mafia, is sentenced to prison
A woman who acted as a representative in the streets of the leaders of the prison gang the Mexican Mafia, a role known as “Señora”, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, reported this Monday the California Prosecutor’s Office.
Cheryl Pérez-Castañeda, from 58 years old , was an important collaborator of a cell of the Mexican Mafia directed by Michael Lerma, alias “Pomona Mike” and “Big Mike” said Ciaran McEvoy, spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office for the Central District of California.
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In her role as executor of the organization’s orders Also known as “La Eme”, Pérez-Castañeda collected money from the drug sales of the gangs Latinas and even had the power to order murders.
The members of the criminal organization of Lerma also participated in robberies, identity fraud, drug trafficking, kidnappings and other acts of violence, affirms the prosecution’s accusation.
Between February of 2012 and July 2016, Pérez-Castañeda played “the traditional role of Lady” and performed the proper functions including the collection of “taxes” established by La Eme to the Latino gangs that drugs in the Pomona area, north of Los Angeles.
The associate of the Mexican Mafia deposited these money s on accounts belonging to Lerma, who was incarcerated at the Pelican Bay State Prison.
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“But Pérez-Castañeda also used his power as Lerma’s voice on the streets to request the murder of a Los Angeles County jail inmate in July 2013 in retaliation for the shooting of her son, ”McEvoy reported.
And when the woman learned that the inmate had been stabbed but had not died requested La Eme’s approval to keep it on the list of “Green light” as indicated to die.
In July 2013, the defendant also participated in an attempted robbery of u a Mercedes-Benz car owned by another convict. When the person in charge of the vehicle refused to deliver it, one of Pérez-Castañeda’s associates shot him.
In March 2018 a Federal Grand Jury indicted Lerma and others 12 collaborators of multiple serious crimes , including conspiracy to commit a crime, violent crimes, conspiracy to distribute drugs and use of firearms.
The trial against Lerma and Other defendants in this case, including José Valencia González, the one responsible for shooting in the car theft case, is scheduled to begin on 11 of May.
The investigation of these cases was conducted by the FBI Special Force for the Safety of the Streets of the San Gabriel Valley, also composed of p or members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Pomona and El Monte Police Departments, the Administration for Drug Control (DEA) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) .
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