, With that, let each of us as norteos recognize the true purpose of this album and come together, henceforth, presenting a strong united front, que viva puros norteos unidos.. Im from up here, I grew up with norteo friends. 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 Prison gang members set to testify against Nuestra Familia leaders. : Wanton Disregard For Safety Warrants Or Holds Only Resist / Obstruct / Delay Peace Officer in Tulare County, California on March 30, 2016 by Tulare County Sheriff. Sir Dyno was born. Besides directing the tone of the project, Gratton asked to narrate the intro. dozens of murders while imprisoned at Pelican Bay, including 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. I spoke to a classification officer at the San Joaquin County jail who confirmed that Rocha claimed to be norteo but didnt claim a particular set of a gang.. Nuestra Familia's new leadership General: David "DC" Cervantes Top Commanders: Daniel "Stork" Perez, of Salinas; Anthony "Chuco" Guillen, of San Jose; George "Puppet" Franco, of San Jose Demoted: Jose "Huerito" Gonzalez; James "Conejo" Perez Copyright 2008 Monterey County Herald. It is my hope the federal prison system is better equipped to derail the violence.. Hoping to curtail the violence, wardens stopped putting Anglos, blacks, and Latinos in cells with one another. Now, for a CD he cut five years ago, for a guy he claims he barely knew, for a dollar he never made, David Rocha faces a life sentence on a single count of conspiracy. He complained again that his overhead was too high; he had to charge $3,200 per pound of meth, while his competitors were selling it at $2,600 to $2,800. He told Ramirez there should be no bloodshed. But then he added: If something comes at us, you cant help it. Just dont go out looking for it and doing anything., Ramirez replied, Its in motion. If youre a norteo, and youre flamed-up in reds a 49ers jersey will do a lone sureo, who might be dressed down in his Dodgers blue, could make a move on you, unprovoked. promotional posters around town and learning from a confidential informant that Robert Gratton, one of the faces on the posters, was financing North Star from meth sales. Therefore John Ashcroft is a chicken.. They were Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, my pal Lizard Hernandez, and Robert "Huero" Gratton. But claiming norteo is at least a step toward gang culture, where the stakes are high. As a captain, he answered only to a handful of higher-ranking capos and the three generals inside Pelican Bay. At the time, the $5 million price tag and networking of thirty different law enforcement agencies made it the most expensive and largest investigation into a California prison gang. The rappers story varies somewhat depending on whos doing the telling. Rocha still did not understand the charge or why he was being placed into custody. He took the gangs oath, Blood in, blood out, and rose to the rank of captain within a few years. 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. Frias used a pay phone to call another gang member, Roque Boxer Martinez, who said he would bring a .22 and meet Frias in the parking lot. Blacks sided with the Black Guerrilla Family or the Five Percenters. Each day, the ranking member might assign a topic to his subordinates; by days end, a 1,500-word written essay was due. He pleaded guilty to arranging two murders from prison, and will be sentenced to life in prison in December, along with the gangs generals. True to my nickname, he said, Im chameleon-like, and can blend in. He would be the highest-ranking brother on the streets, responsible for overseeing the gangs battalions and communicating back to the generals. He leaves behind a 3-year-old son of his own, but vows that the cycle of violence ends with him. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. The thought of slashing his cousin made no sense. In the logic of the Chicano intrastate rivalry, there are norteos and sureos, and even if youre not running with the corner gang, youre still vulnerable to getting whacked by your enemy. Days later, Big Smiley sent Lizard his own wilas, as well as books on Chicano history. Natos harsh sentence made Lizard rethink his lifes path. 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. The founder of the failed company is Sam Bankman-Fried. Shortly thereafter, his client pleaded guilty for a chance at parole, but remained adamant that Lizard had given him the green light. Sanchez was laying low, but Ramirez expected him to pop up again. I fear no organization. They need their cut, he said. Any Nuestra Familia member who betrayed his fellow carnals was subject to article two, section five of the groups constitution: AN AUTOMATIC DEATH SENTENCE WILL BE PUT ON FAMILIANO THAT TURNS TRAITOR, COWARD, OR DESSERTER [sic]. It always does., Even Judge Charles Breyer seemed to question the value of Operation Black Widow. Maybe hed give me one hundred bucks to shut me up, or fifty bucks to shut me up, he says, or gas money or something.. According to transcripts and court documents, Ramirez brought up the touchy subject of Ray Sanchez, a competing heroin dealer who was boasting of taking over the drug game. So far as you can trust anyone in a gang, hed trusted Cuete. And he had better news: Nuestra Familia pot and speed were piping through Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento. He faced 25 years to life. Its as sensible as that East Coast-West Coast thing. Like a religious convert eager to please his superiors, Lizards first efforts impressed his would-be peers. 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 Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez, were transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado. The CD had been funded in 1998 from Pelican Bay prison by the top Nuestra Familia general, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba. He was born in Pittsburg, which made him a Norteo by birth. He told them about the codes, the phony law firm, the bank accounts. 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. And what had germinated inside the prisons was now blooming all across California. Outside prison walls, the reach and violence of Nuestra Familia had only grown. 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. They were operating a sophisticated shop, gang expert Lewis said. I did it because I was ordered to do it. They werent following what NF was about, he said. But the rapper has faith the judicial process will work in his favor. They formed their own gang: Nuestra Familia our family. Zilversmit represents Armando Suave Heredia, a gang member arrested for ordering a successful hit on Salinas heroin dealer Ray Sanchez. In December of 2001, Daniel Hernandez became the highest-ranking member of the Nuestra Familia prison gang to cooperate with federal investigators. I wanted to go face to face with all those attorneys, he said. What they will do within the federal prison remains to be seen, but investigators said stabbings have increased and communication with the outside has been established through cell phones smuggled into prison. 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. Lizard said he attacked Huero-T as he slept, pummeling him into a bloody mess until guards pulled him off. His shackled codefendants didnt even look at him as he took his seat among them. Almost two decades later, Lizard still recalls the clarity of that moment. Inside the state prison system, norteos side with Nuestra Familias syndicates, and sureos with La Eme, aka the Mexican Mafia. FBI reports show that while on the federal payroll, Lizard performed unauthorized drug deals. And I was part of that policy. This was the place where we took all of our training to the next level. But the state prison guards union and correctional officials have argued that to mix inmates now would only bring more violence. Heres my card.'. Lizard is unapologetic about his behavior, even today. The rapper denied this new accusation. Ramiro Goose Garcia from Stockton complained that the gang wasnt sufficiently exploiting the Central Valley drug market. of Tulare County. When the state-of-the-art super-max penitentiary opened in 1989, built exclusively for the states 2,800 most violent inmates, Governor George Deukmejian hailed it a model for the rest of the nation. Instead, it has become a model gang incubator. I could rap political, I could rap street, it doesnt matter, Sir Dyno says. It gives you something to do. Grattons wife was the cousin of a rapper named E-Clips, who at the time was a member of Darkroom Familia. And I wanted to go high.. and manufacturers. Lizard prepared to take the stand against Nuestra Familia. Prisoners are permitted reading materials, including legal documents in manila folders, which are hands-off to the guards who routinely search the cells. I dont rattle, he said. Right after the CD came out, red-on-red violence all but ended, he says. Brown Bob brought it on himself., It was just like the Nuestra Familia constitution said: Blood In, Blood Out., By the time Lizard exited Pelican Bay, prison guards had nicknamed Nuestra Familia The Blooming Flower for its astonishing growth. For seven months, he secretly recorded meetings with his gangs underbosses, allowing federal agents to listen in as his carnals planned drug deals, bought firearms, and talked openly about killing people, including two deputy district attorneys from Santa Clara County. The prosecutors revealed that Gratton would testify Sir Dyno dealt meth on his behalf. Still, the gang has been dealt a serious wound with Lizards help. The five former leaders are James "Tibbs" Morado, 59, whose common-law wife, 20-year-old Salinas resident Crystal Nenque, was found slain on Hecker Pass Road near Watsonville in 2005; Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, 58; Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, 52; Cornelio Tristan, 46; and former Monterey resident Tex Marin Hernandez, 53. Gratton was shirtless, a large Nuestra Familia tattoo visible in bold letters across his back. Lizard was the kind of guy who took the NF way very seriously. I am just as dangerous as they are.. Ultimately itll be a jurys role to sort out the truth, but this much everybody can agree on: In 1997 an NF captain named Robert Huerito Gratton was paroled from Pelican Bay State Prison, moved to Modesto, and started a label called North Star Records. gang's leaders communicated by some form of secret code within the A grand jury indictment was in the works. Hed began his criminal career as a teenage norteo gang member, pulling off smash-and-grab robberies of jewelry stores. But one day on the yard, he was approached by Juan Nato Gurule, a long-lost cousin from the East Bay. He is currently a gang instructor at the FBI Headquarter's in-service nationwide training program for field agents. Rudy Del Real and Rudolfo Quilon complete the order. interacts online and researches product purchases He told them about killing Brown Bob. They sat by and watched these guys pick each other off one by one. According to motions filed by Zilversmit, at least two other alleged Nuestra Familia members were attacked while the feds were listening in. Of the 21 original defendants, nineteen are already certified as Nuestra Familia through the state Department of Corrections. Together, Nato and Lizard robbed drug dealers, committed petty crimes, and raised funds for their carnals back inside. The red line also called for (NF) lieutenant David Cervantes to be put on retirement status. 15 year old Carlos "Casper" Silva a Preston parolee is arrested murders 3 people witin a seven week span on behalf of Nuestra familia. I wanted to be that NF member who the people could count on, Lizard recalled. Lizard said he shook the tail, but later needed to prove he was clean. Hes convinced hell get off scot-free. Police dogs sniffed through his car and came up with three ounces of crystal meth. Lizard first went to prison when he was nineteen. Assistant US Attorney Steven Gruel responded in court papers that federal agents couldnt be blamed for failing to notify the victim, since Sanchez already knew that he had serious problems with Heredias gang (in fact, he had been hiding). Gruel also offered four instances in which Lizards testimony did lead FBI agents to inform Norteos they were marked for death. 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 Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez, were transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado. Back among the general prison population, Lizard reported to his ranking captain, Gerald Cuete Rubalcaba, one of the gangs most revered members. Click here to follow the step-by-step murder of Brown Bob, as conducted from inside prison walls. Frias returned to the bar, gun tucked in his waistband, walked behind Sanchez, and fired a bullet into the base of his skull, killing him. On Daddys Home, instead of the stone-cold thug who whacks his way through the streets, Sir Dyno raps about what he truly is: a 31-year-old father facing a life sentence for the choices he made years earlier. who joined the FBI and other agencies in an investigation of street That was enough to send Holguin back to Lizards hotel room to make an arrest. Then, several weeks later, a Pelican Bay investigator intercepted a letter penned by Lizard to one of his superiors. 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. Instead, phone records and a confidential FBI source revealed that hed driven to a house in East San Jose, where hed bought two pounds of methamphetamine. The Apprehension Teams scrutiny proved to be Sir Dynos downfall. Operation Knockout Now, for a CD he cut five years ago, for a guy he claims he barely knew, for a dollar he never made, David Rocha faces a life sentence on a single count of conspiracy. Since the government began using the antiracketeering statutes to take down crime families in 1970, the definition of coconspirator has been legally challenged and modified several times. [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. FBI agents did not respond to interview requests. Thats when I started pulling away, he says. You could see he was nervous, Holguin said. Under the federal RICO laws used to indict criminal organizations like Nuestra Familia, anyone who knowingly associates with one member of a gang becomes part of it and if the gang goes down, so does he. They were expected to smuggle in a copy of the Nuestra Familia constitution inside their legal folders and commit the document and its philosophy to memory. But Wino rejected Lizard. Three days before Christmas, Lizard called Holguin. was drawing the attention its makers craved, and then some. He said he knows they may try to find him, but that he will not hide. Youre a lot smarter than those guys doing life in prison. 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. Rocha did not seem to understand the reason for the arrest or the charge. But while prosecutors were assembling their final case against the gang, Lizard was drug-tested as part of the terms of his release. A small star on his forehead suggested hed killed someone in prison, even though, in truth, he hadnt. One such order last year told Norte-os across Northern California to clean the streets of Sure-os. He had two daughters to support, and payments from other rap projects were slow coming in. OUR PUBLICATIONSCannabis ChronicleEast BayGilroy DispatchGood Times Santa CruzHollister Free LanceKing City RustlerMarin Pacific SunMetro Silicon ValleyMorgan Hill TimesNorth Bay BohemianPress BannerSalinas Valley TribuneSouth ValleyWatsonville Pajaronian, ADVERTISINGAdvertiseLegal NoticesObituariesSponsored ContentWriting An ObituarySubmit an Obituary, COMPANY INFOJob OpportunitiesPrivacy Policy. The rapper says hed press Gratton for cash, but the label owner always had an excuse. 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 Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez, were transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado. I mean, I would think not, but you better have some realness to it if youre going to rap that way., Despite his marketed image, Sir Dyno now claims hes never known anyone who died from gang warfare, never had anyone close to him go off to prison. 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. At the time, norteo street gangs were engaged in red-on-red turf wars, and were giving up overall ground to the sureos, their blue-clad enemies from the south. 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. It was explained to Rocha that the RICO charge had to do with racketeering and his involvement with Nuestra Familia prison gang; specifically in the creating of the Generations of United Norteos compact disc and how the CD was financed. Roy Morales. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. 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The gang's new constitution says the five should still be respected as former leaders, but has stripped them of their power in California. At the time of Operation Black Widow, law enforcement officials had estimated that Nuestra Familia was responsible for at least 600 murders in the previous 30 years. Lizard claimed Norteo. I cant muscle the guy because I dont know what hes involved with, he reasoned, so either I make an issue of it and make an enemy I dont want, or just let it go. Chained to their seats on a triple-tiered bleacher facing the jury box were fourteen men dressed in blood-red jumpsuits. Hes got a future. You cant smoke everybody that sells dope.. Even though hed participated in many stabbings and beatings in prison, hed avoided detection for most of his crimes. According to Lizard, the commander had one more piece of information: Cuete says youre a no-good. Lizard then drove to a house in Stockton, where he tested the powder and sold it to another Norteo. Around 6:30 p.m. on April 19, 1999, Brown Bob was watering his roses. His bike frame was made by Dyno, so the kids at school called him Dyno Dave. By the time he turned twenty, though, youthful angst had sunk in, and Too $hort cassettes found a home in Dyno Daves music box. For this outburst, prison administrators shipped Lizard off to Pelican Bay State Prison the last stop for riders. Last year, a newly revised constitution for the gang was distributed through underground channels, allowing for change in the mesa's structure, said Santa Cruz County sheriff's Sgt. Lexipol. After he was expelled, his parents sent him back north to live with an aunt in Pittsburg, where he continued to carouse. The words didnt sound right to Lizard. He took a job at a golf course and used his access to the links to reclaim his swing, sometimes playing 36 holes a day. On the new CD, he pounded out a few norteo rhymes, deriving material from his meth bust, after which hed pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and was sentenced to a year of house arrest. Both were steeped in the Jehovahs Witnesses faith. The official list of charges, which included more than thirty drug-related crimes along with acts of extortion and robbery, simply ended with the open-ended clause and other numerous crimes.. During his time with Nuestra Raza, Gratton learned the boot camp basics: how to make shanks, decode letters, and memorize the NF Constitution. Snow-locked Highway 29 between Calistoga and the Lake County border will likely stay closed through the weekend, CHP announced Friday afternoon. Even though he was broke and sleeping on friends couches, Sir Dyno felt he was on the cusp of the big time, ready to break. When his handlers shook him from his slumber, Lizard felt relieved, not irritated. In April 2001, FBI agents, along with assistance from 24 local and state agencies, ended Operation Black Widow. Hernandez never belonged to either group until he ended up in prison. There, Gratton was made a full-fledged Nuestra Familia member. Silent also provided Lizard with a stolen Dodge Durango to test-drive. Whatever it is, you gotta go to the extreme. 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. 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. The justices will decide whether prisoners are denied their constitutional rights when forced to cell with another inmate based on race; a ruling could force administrators to consider full integration. But in a coup d'etat of sorts, Gonzalez and Perez have been "demoted" to "Category 1," the lowest level of the Nuestra Familia, investigators say. Lizard already knew all the old tricks. He smoked pot and tasted alcohol. Lizard brushed aside Holguins offer. In early 1998, fellow La Mesa heavyweight Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba ordered Viramontes dead. I see the reality of things now and now that Ive gone through that, theres, like, no glory in it, you know?. I didnt care, he said later. Man, Im from the streets. gang activity in Northern California about six years ago. Lizard recalls Nato asking him why he claimed Sureo, and if hed heard the history of the gang conflict. If it read Hello Love!, it was every eighth word. We are not going to whack no DAs!. Rocha then asked for what was he being arrested, indicating he did not understand the charge. Orders from the generals were arriving on the streets within weeks, if not days. They knew I had them., He still hasnt been reunited with his family. His father sold vacuum cleaners; his mother was a housewife. Its different for her, he said. 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. 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. He used rap to vent about what every other twenty-year-old male stuck in a small town vents about: how fucked-up life is. One day two months ago, federal agents arrived at her home, and she was swept into the program. posters and CDs in his car, again cementing a link between the prison gang and local norteos. Police surmise that the order was responsible for many of the shootings in Salinas in 2007, which increased by 50 percent over 2006 levels. Though vastly outnumbered, Nuestra Familia distinguished itself by organizing its troops along strict paramilitary lines. All rights reserved. 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. Henry Happy Cervantes spoke to Lizard alone. with his boss while in prison, and took it out of prison with him, after the idea was ratified by the NF leadership. He estimated the CD had netted about $80,000 and that hed sent only $5,000 to a bank account in Boise, Idaho, where a female accomplice transferred the money into a separate account for NF prisoners. Or were they? If you continue to listen to them, then youll be in there for life, too.'. Thousands bought the album in the major record chains like Sam Goody's. 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.. 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