Pomona wasn’t Lerma’s only fiefdom, prosecutors say. In 2018, they charged, Lerma seized control of the drug trade within a federal jail. A witness testified Lerma called the shots for Latino inmates ...

LOS ANGELES -- In Pomona, Michael Lerma is a “mythical” figure, his attorney says. Lerma, 68, hasn’t walked the streets of his hometown on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County since the ...

As illegal border crossings drop to record lows under the Trump administration, U.S. attorneys in California are prosecuting ...

Federal prosecutors also successfully prosecuted four Pomona gang members and Mexican Mafia associates who were recently found guilty of racketeering and first degree murder of a Metropolitan ...

According to a police report, authorities suspected she was talking about Frank Buelna, a Mexican Mafia member who was shaking down drug dealers in Pomona with his right-hand man, Daniel Prendiz.

There are almost 140 members of the Mexican Mafia, most incarcerated in prisons or jails, according to the U.S. Attorney’s ...

A Mexican Mafia member who controlled drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of prisoners inside the Los Angeles County jail system pleaded guilty on Monday, April 7, to a federal ...

Federal prosecutors are reconsidering whether to pursue the death penalty for reputed Orange County Mexican Mafia boss Johnny ...