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4/24/2026, 12:00:45 AM
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Breaking today, the FBI [music] carrying out pre-dawn raids in Southern California, arresting dozens of gang members with ties to the Mexican Mafia.
And Fox News was there to see all of it.
Senior correspondent William La Jeunesse is reporting live out of Santa Ana for us on that. Hey, William.
A major operation, Sandra, targeting one of the nation's most feared prison gangs, the Mexican Mafia.
As you said, 6:00 a.m. this morning, the FBI and seven local SWAT teams arresting 45 suspects from around Orange County.
66 felony counts, drug dealing, kidnapping, assault, extortion, and murder. All suspects then brought to the Santa Ana police station for processing.
And here's what's fascinating about the indictment.
indictment. One, the Mexican Mafia is known as the gang of gangs because all Latino gang members, Latin Kings, Sureños, Eastsiders, no matter, ultimately all answer to the Mexican Mafia.
And while it is a prison gang, all the associates you see here on the outside still answer to one person behind bars.
Finally, Mexican Mafia has nothing to do with Mexico.
It was formed in the '50s by Mexican-American inmates.
And now it is the most powerful gang in this state with thousands of Latino gangbangers following their orders.
A lot of the crimes are uh stem from narcotics, street sales, uh drug trafficking, uh extortion, up to uh you know, robberies, assaults, and murders.
In this area, the main shot caller is Luis Cardenas, aka Tia or Gangster, serving 25 to life for bludgeoning a man to death at a pizza parlor uh in 2004.
He is serving time in two state prisons, where associates smuggle in contraband on cell phones, right? Allowing those to be used by him to encrypted or with encrypted apps.
And then he would tell people on the outside what drugs to buy and where, what businesses to extort, who gets beat with a hammer until they pay their taxes.
The Mexican Mafia is a very unique organization. All the hierarchy are in prison.
So, the the inmates in prison run the operation from inside behind bars, and they exert control over neighborhood street gangs, Hispanic street gangs.
So, this investigation required a lot of wiretaps and confidential informants.
And Sandra, the reason you pay your taxes, one, is it allows you to keep the Mafia, allows you to keep your territory, therefore your income.
But secondly, if you're sent to jail or prison, now you have protection from the Mafia.
And without that, it's probably not too pleasant.
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