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California Prison Gang Linked to Guards and Mexican Drug Cartel
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 13
A barber shop in National City, California was allegedly the war room" connecting the statewide Mexican Mafia gang (Eme) to the underworld Arellano Felix drug cartel in nearby Mexico, according to investigators from the California Department of Corrections (CDC). The war room was reportedly headed by barber Roberto Ramiro Marin, ...
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
Gang Policies,
Escapes,
Crime.
Locations:
Mexico,
California.
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