A few weeks later, the rapper signed a new contract with Dog Day Records and quickly released an album called Gang Stories. Outside for the first time in decades, he was fashioning a new life in suburban Campbell with his wife and two sons. Then at fourteen, Hernandez began to glimpse a different world. slated for Sept. 13 in San Francisco, is Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba Its different for her, he said. Lizard is unapologetic about his behavior, even today. 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. Look for a box or option labeled Home Page (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) or On Startup (Chrome). The rappers story varies somewhat depending on whos doing the telling. Its just the way it is, Sir Dyno says. Thats it. At any one time, an estimated two to three hundred members are incarcerated there, including the gangs top three generals. Theyre dwarfed by La Eme, but decided to become highly organized.. 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. The immediate and constant communication strengthened the gang. While members of the Norteos gang are considered to be affiliated with Nuestra Familia, being a member of Nuestra Familia itself does not signify association as a Norteo. Even now, he talks about the incident with the distance that soldiers put between themselves and their wartime deeds. And there was ghosting a letter: using a Q-Tip to swab milk or urine to write out orders on a piece of paper. 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. I had to.. A grand jury indictment was in the works. At night, he ordered rows of Nuestra Familia inmates to recite aloud Aztec war chants to rattle guards and enemies. Or better yet, two prosecuting attorneys., Cervantes persisted. That what I decided to do.. For the next three months, he made his bones among Norteos by slashing Sureo inmates, brothers hed once shouldered with. Even though the project had cash potential tomorrow, Sir Dyno still needed money today. Then in late April 2001, more than two years since hed last spoken to Robert Gratton, he was summoned to a meeting with his parole officer. Theyre trying to say that when I met Robert Gratton I started selling drugs for him, and to finance the G.U.N. So Lizard flipped. The 13 defendants, six of them from Pelican Bay, are currently housed at a maximum security prison in North County Jail in Oakland where . Lizard himself adamantly denied Zilversmits claims, insisting that he pressed for peace in the case of Sanchez. SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 17 defendants with racketeering conspiracy, including acts involving murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and money laundering, and charging five others with drug trafficking-related crimes. Monday. They were operating a sophisticated shop, gang expert Lewis said. He already was serving a life sentence for murder in Pelican Bay State Prison, but now he was under indictment for ordering a hit on an underboss named Miguel Mikio Castillo. He told them about killing Brown Bob. In sealed court documents, Lizards primary FBI handler claimed that he was duped by his informant. During his time with Nuestra Raza, Gratton learned the boot camp basics: how to make shanks, decode letters, and memorize the NF Constitution. Orders from the generals were arriving on the streets within weeks, if not days. He was a long way from his former East Bay stomping grounds, and hadnt dared visit his wife and children, who still lived locally. Special Agent Kelly explained to Rocha that he was being placed under arrest for violation of RICO conspiracy, the report states. Back among the general prison population, Lizard reported to his ranking captain, Gerald Cuete Rubalcaba, one of the gangs most revered members. Read another way, hes merely been persistent in denying his role. He and his team of agents tore through Lizards hotel room, looking for evidence to send him back to the clink a bag of pot, a letter to a carnal, a bag of speed. 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. In fact, the 31-year-old gangsta rapper, whose real name is David Rocha, wanted nothing more than to distance himself from his codefendants. At the end of the day he gets to go home.. Therefore, David is an NF member or associate. One of the highest-ranking defendants in the upcoming trial, Lizard says the drug was merely Vicodin, a pain reliever he took after strenuous workouts at the gym. Youre hot, the underboss said. I wanted my brothers to eventually put me in a position that would enable me to push the Familia into the future, on a profound level.. 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. Zilversmit represents Armando Suave Heredia, a gang member arrested for ordering a successful hit on Salinas heroin dealer Ray Sanchez. Up to that point, Lizard had identified himself as a Sureo, but only when pressed. It was his way or the highway. Not far from Tristan sat Rico Smiley Garcia, facing the death penalty for carrying out his bosses orders and putting two bullets in the back of Castillos head. In April 2001, FBI agents, along with assistance from 24 local and state agencies, ended Operation Black Widow. Lizards initial work was flawless. I told him, Listen. Sir Dyno, however, isnt charged with any individual crime, just one count of RICO conspiracy, and his connection to that crime seems to be largely related to his performance on Generations of United Norteos. Happy was hardcore, with a permanent smile beneath his Fu Manchu mustache. Rocha was asked, Do you want to speak to an attorney? Rocha did not respond, and went on to state, Im a musician. He also stated something to the effect, If you have a landscaper work on your yard, you dont care where the equipment comes from.'. Everybody knows that. Now he had to prove he had a mind to match. In his FBI interrogation, Gratton never makes it clear whether Sir Dyno knew he was rapping for the mob, or that North Star Records had been set up to launder money. He said he felt no jitters, nor did he question his loyalties to the brothers he was betraying. It took 26 years for death to catch up to Donald Ramon Ortiz. Rap is an exaggeration of life, he says, just like in a movie. Two months later, the leaders met again at the Los Robles Lodge in Santa Rosa. Lizard said that whenever brothers were allowed into the law library, they used sign language to swap information, trade intelligence reports, and even assign homework. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. Dozens of Napans who are homeless will soon find permanent housing in a former city motel. Daniel Lizard Hernandez was awakened by an FBI agent at 4 a.m. a few weeks ago. 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. You wouldnt isolate an inmate and make him a target for the other side., But some criminologists now acknowledge that this practice strengthened the gangs. They also hardened into gang boundaries on the streets. The gang's new constitution says the five should still be respected as former leaders, but has stripped them of their power in California. Gratton stands only five foot seven, but his bold tattoos did the talking. In September, the final eight defendants pleaded guilty, following the first thirteen members indicted. Lizard said he beat Ruiz to a pulp with his fists, bringing his victim close to death. Cuete had gone power mad. The album would preach the unification of norteos Chicanos born north of an invisible border located somewhere around Fresno who, once inside the prison system, were eligible to join Nuestra Familia. Everyone says they want to rap, says they want to make CDs, but David was really doing it. They were caught up in power grabs and backstabbing. Lizard has a thick handlebar mustache, broad shoulders, and is engraved with prison tattoos in Old English script. But Lizards exploits show how prison policies adopted to control gangs such as Nuestra Familia may actually have helped them bloom. They spent the next two days debriefing their new informant. Fourteen of those charged in federal court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana . You arent just talking about some poor criminal who was abused by the NF and got drawn into the criminal net. I didnt realize lyrics could be taken so seriously, he now says, claiming that he rapped for shock value on G.U.N. It looked like they were unhappy with the content of G.U.N., Manson says, and thats why David was indicted for the content of his music. The largest and most feared Latino prison gang was the Sureo-based Mexican Mafia, or La Eme. Smiley replied that it was true, but not to worry no one was moving on it. 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. In the eyes of the law, that would make Sir Dyno a real-life gangster. No one who got whacked was an innocent man. He folded up the missive, stuck it to a piece of gum, and dangled it into Smileys cell using a thread of elastic hed plucked from his waistband. Cuete took a shine to Lizard because Lizard was a stickler for detail, one police investigator said last year. The idea was that rap music could unite and galvanize young Norteo soldiers across the state, and it did. But within a few months, Nato got pinched for robbery, and with his long rap sheet, he got 39 years. According to Ribotas report, when he asked about the rappers affiliation, Rocha denied having any gang involvement but is a norteo. It wasnt quite the impression he wanted to make. Four months into his service as a snitch, FBI agents concluded that he had lied to one of his handlers when he said he was headed to Stockton for a round of golf. They were getting orders in and out of that prison in no time. In it, he explains how the CD brought him unwanted attention and more money than hed expected, but he never reveals whether Sir Dyno knew North Star was a front for Nuestra Familia. All rights reserved. How could he go back in with Cuete wanting him dead? I was doing it as a smokescreen. He hung out at the Modesto nightclub La Familia Garcias and set up a meth ring using known norteo gangsters as runners, an enterprise he now claims earned him $10,000 a day. When he entered Corcoran State Prison in 1989 for selling cocaine, he joined Nuestra Raza, a recruiting gang for the more esteemed Nuestra Familia. Zilversmit said the feds were preoccupied with preserving their investigation instead of saving lives. The Apprehension Teams scrutiny proved to be Sir Dynos downfall. was drawing the attention its makers craved, and then some. 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. This was reported to the informants state parole officer. Lizard said he was forced into performing the unauthorized drug deals after an investigator from Santa Clara County nearly blew his cover. 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. Lizard said that during that time, he heard two Norteos disrespecting Smileys name and took the initiative to stab them both. Under federal law, its rather easy to be declared a coconspirator in a RICO case. and manufacturers. This was our college, Lizard said. Lizard said he wrote to a member of the Black Guerrillas whom hed met in San Quentin. 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. We shared a common goal, and that goal was to be the very NF members who put the organization back on track.. Its not easy.. In the next room, Ragan and a team of detectives from the Santa Rosa Police Department listened to the meeting and watched it on a hidden camera. He was as bright and loyal as they came, so Cuete could trust him.. prison gang are prepared to testify against their top leaders in a The three ounces found in Sir Dynos car, Gratton was claiming, came from him a statement which, if true, puts Sir Dyno squarely within the gang conspiracy. Well, if youre upset with the content, the First Amendment says Too bad. the credibility of the witnesses convicted felons who made deals I didnt have a choice, he recalled. Once he made that choice, his own cunning and aptitude for violence catapulted him up the ranks of one of Californias most murderous gangs. Hes had plenty of time to contemplate. In November 1986, Lizard tried out these new skills on another inmate and was transferred to San Quentin. One of the gangs living legends had recently been paroled. Its the life story of a petty hood who reached his full criminal potential only afterentering the California prison system. Danny was telling me, But Im not a gang member,' Holguin said. Snow-locked Highway 29 between Calistoga and the Lake County border will likely stay closed through the weekend, CHP announced Friday afternoon. This may be called Tools or use an icon like the cog. The voice doesnt sound like Sir Dynos, but officers in the streets took offense. On one Gang Stories track about issuing payback on the cops, a voice in the background calls out Detective Ribotas name, a suggestion to watch his back. He oversaw battalions across the greater Bay Area, and relayed their progress to his bosses back inside. Most importantly, he showed a willingness to draw sureo blood. Along with Crooked and other Bay Area rhymers, the Darkroom Familia took off as a twelve-member supergroup, touring across the West on their own dime, all of them touting the street thug lifestyle. A federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down 21 indictments against gang members, including the three generals and captain Gerald Cuete Rubalcaba. In a way, its a compliment to me. The rapper says his final meeting with Gratton occurred while the label owner was outside washing his car. Hernandez has conducted himself as a cooperating witness with great dignity and character, a memo from the US Attorneys office stated. He was born in Pittsburg, which made him a Norteo by birth. He crawled into his living room before dying in his familys arms. According to Lewis, the gang grew from about a thousand members in the late 80s to more than two thousand just six years later. While working as an informant, he tested positive for drug use. His alleged crime is conspiracy in other words, simply having associated with the men sitting beside him. And when that rhyme ran out, as it usually does, he went where other rappers go to make up for the sudden loss of material: He started making shit up. Lizard already knew all the old tricks. 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. Hed turned his parents garage into a makeshift studio, recorded cassettes, and sold them at low-rider shows and East Bay record stores. He told his commander that hed received an order from Cuete to kill two deputy district attorneys, a husband and wife team in San Jose named Kitty and Charles Constantinides. He was a loyal and merciless soldier until a foolish parole violation threatened to send him back to prison, where his own safety was in question. The quickest way to get money back fast would be to release a norteo album. None of these other [Nuestra Familia members] have a thing to say about [Sir Dyno], Manson says. For penance, Cuete was allegedly ordered to write an essay on the consequences of being a gossip. It remains to be seen ultimately whether this prosecution was warranted, he said in accepting the guilty pleas. Its rise even exceeded the mushrooming growth of the greater California prison population. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. There are 150,000 pages of discovery to sort through, photographs from dozens of crime scenes, audiotapes from hours of hidden wires, and hours of surveillance videos. The following day, Ray Sanchez walked into Caps Saloon, unaware that hed been the discussion of a hit. After a few weeks of writing and recording, the CD was released on Cinco de Mayo of 1998 and found its audience immediately. 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. He said that was where he picked up the nickname Lizard, from friends who admired his clandestine nature.. County./AP. Hed began his criminal career as a teenage norteo gang member, pulling off smash-and-grab robberies of jewelry stores. The report counted nearly seven thousand cases of inmate assault in the states 32 institutions, along with nine murders that year, a steady increase over the past decade. Ramirez bragged to Lizard that hed already chased Sanchez out of Salinas Chinatown at least once, and had warned him that he needed to pay taxes if he wanted to deal in Salinas. In 2004, when the prison gang's top five leaders were transferred from California to a federal supermaximum prison in Florence, Colo., a struggle for the gang's top positions brewed in Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, the Nuestra Familia's traditional headquarters. After all, race-based prison gang violence dominates Californias prison system, according to a 2002 report from the California State Department of Justice. His most recent, Engrave These Words on My Stone, is probably his most cathartic, if not authentic. And he got what he wanted., Out only three months, G.U.N. Still, the accusations put Lizards conduct under scrutiny. Lizard had made other deals, too. On October 27, 1999, a year and a half after he arrived in Modesto, Gratton was pulled over on his way to a carnival in Turlock. Lizard still takes pride in that: What the law didnt know was that Lizard had an escape plan and a handcuff key, but more importantly, he had influence on the streets, he recalled in a letter. 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. Former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernndez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristn and Tex Marn Hernndez. Man, Im from the streets. Grattons information cast a domino effect, eventually leading to 21 cooperating witnesses for the government. was felt on the streets. Almost two decades later, Lizard still recalls the clarity of that moment. He suggested that gang members cook our own shit to gain control, saying he could make twenty pounds of raw meth in one batch. Sir Dyno wanted to make a name for himself, Lewis says, so he sold his soul to the devil. Symbols and culture CD, Sir Dyno says. Over an ominous keyboard drone, he speaks deliberately, as if issuing a UN speech: The primary purpose and goals of this album is to promote unity amongst each and every one of us as norteos. Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "our family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California. Somewhere in between, the blend of fact and fiction amount to the truth for Sir Dyno. Nobody expects you to rap exactly what your life is. For that reason, he explains, he turned to dealing methamphetamine. These defendants wisely elected to plead guilty rather than face the prospect of Mr. Hernandez appearance as a trial witness against them.. Chalk it up as a loss, just let it go, and move on. If he stayed in Corcoran, hed have to watch his back for young Norteos. Using racketeering statutes to bust the organized crime ring, the indictment carried six charges of murder or attempted murder, as well as charges of assault, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and arms dealing. ', All of the early motions from Gruel and his team of US prosecutors pointed only to Sir Dynos role in making the album. The prosecutors revealed that Gratton would testify Sir Dyno dealt meth on his behalf. According to Lewis, gang members have been linked to an estimated three hundred homicides across Northern California. Holguin was well known to Nuestra Familia members hed interviewed hundreds of them during his three decades in the system. The case grew out of information developed by Santa Rosa Police, Gratton, already growing weary with the gang after learning that one of his closest allies, Robert Brown Bob Viramontes, had been murdered outside his Campbell home, ignored Rubalcabas letters. 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