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La Familia Michoacana was a major Mexican drug cartel based in Michoacán between at least 2006 and 2011. It was formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, but split off and became an independent organization. [201] Map of Mexican drug cartels presence in Mexico based on a May 2010 Stratfor report [202] [203]
The first cannabis prohibition laws in California were passed in 1913. [8] In the 1972 California November elections an initiative titled Proposition 19, which would have legalized cannabis, was on the ballot. It failed to pass, with 66.5% voters voting "No" and 33.5% voting "Yes."
Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang, alleging that one of the group's leaders in California is a powerful Mexican Mafia figure who ...
Drug trafficking organizations are defined by the United States Department of Justice as, "complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantity "Law enforcement reporting indicates that Mexican DTOs maintain drug distribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, in at least 230 U.S. cities."
A high-ranking Mexican cartel leader who faked his own death to "live a life of luxury" in California has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Martin Madrigal Cazares, a fugitive Mexican Mafia member who controlled gangs in Ventura County from a base in Mexico where he developed a drug-trafficking network and brought California-style ...
Gerardo González Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [xe'ɾaɾdo ɣon'sales βa'lenθja]; born c. 1976) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco. He is part of a clan that heads a CJNG money laundering branch known as Los Cuinis.
He'd served 15 years, and felt the Mexican Mafia members in the California system had disrespected his stepfather, Frank "Sapo" Fernandez, by cutting him out of the San Fernando Valley rackets ...