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 . Cervantes added that hed already followed the couple to the courthouse. In total, aside from the five convictions and twenty guilty pleas credited to Lizards grand jury testimony and undercover work, federal officials said Operation Black Widow led to a total of 75 Nuestra Familia convictions. As a kid I didnt know anything but religion, he said. Lizard said he wrote to a member of the Black Guerrillas whom hed met in San Quentin. By 1965, Sureos outnumbered Norteos by roughly seven to one inside the prison system. The coddled "terrorists" of South Florida Anti-Castro Cuban exiles who have been linked to bombings and assassinations are living free in Miami. For instance, if Lizard wrote Hey Love, that meant that every third word was part of the real message. You have entered an incorrect email address! Enter https://www.police1.com/ and click OK. 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. Cuete was among the final holdouts. But I knew more about Cuete and his family, and he did about mine. That was enough to send Holguin back to Lizards hotel room to make an arrest. Its just the way it is, Sir Dyno says. The cells are bone-white and feature little more than a chrome toilet and cement platform with thin mattress and pillow. When it concluded in April 2001, after a $5 million investment, it was one of the largest takedowns on a prison gang in US history. slated for Sept. 13 in San Francisco, is Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba 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. Finally, brothers were required to learn sign language so they could make the most of the one hour outside their cells. Sir Dyno accepts this rivalry, and its where many of his raps come from. He did not return letters seeking comment for this article. If it read Hello Love!, it was every eighth word. Cuete took a shine to Lizard because Lizard was a stickler for detail, one police investigator said last year. It gives you a sense of purpose. After Gratton ratted out his fellow gang members one by one, offering a list of 350 names, he was moved into the federal Witness Relocation Program. And then I told him, You know who I am. The job seemed like a good fit. How could he go back in with Cuete wanting him dead? According to Lewis, gang members have been linked to an estimated three hundred homicides across Northern California. For the cover art, Sir Dyno says he told all his friends to tell their friends to show up at a park wearing their reds. We cut off the head of the snake, but it will grow back, said Special Agent Holguin. If he stayed in Corcoran, hed have to watch his back for young Norteos. She was nicknamed Crazy Girl and had the moniker tattooed over her right kneecap, according to FBI documents. Snow-locked Highway 29 between Calistoga and the Lake County border will likely stay closed through the weekend, CHP announced Friday afternoon. Eager to shore up his status in Nuestra Familia, Lizard said, he soon stabbed Sureo Rudolpho Castillo in the throat, nearly killing him. Special Agent Kelly explained to Rocha that he was being placed under arrest for violation of RICO conspiracy, the report states. He was sentenced to 29 years to life in prison. 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. Rudy Del Real and Rudolfo Quilon complete the order. But once youre in the gang, you have a choice as to how high you want to go. And with an ever-increasing prison population that only assures the continued growth of it and other gangs, the very segregation that bolstered the gangs strength appears irrevocable. Its a tough call. 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. 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. In November 1998, he was pulled over on a traffic violation. His shackled codefendants didnt even look at him as he took his seat among them. Gratton stands only five foot seven, but his bold tattoos did the talking. Its not easy.. I kind of paused, Sir Dyno says, adding that he suddenly thought better of asking too many questions. Thats when Lizard began his career as a rider an inmate prone to acting violently toward fellow inmates. Today, the real Sir Dyno has five kids, a home in Tracy, and makes a living off CD sales, which he estimates at beyond 100,000 nationwide. Salinas underboss Alberto Larez estimated that over the last ten years hed sent Cuete and the generals 40, 45 thousand dollars.. Hoping to curtail the violence, wardens stopped putting Anglos, blacks, and Latinos in cells with one another. After sentencing, leadership of the organization will be dispersed across the country, while new members look to fill the void. All rights reserved. Thats it. A judge will decide in December whether his cooperation as an informant outweighs his considerable criminal past. As he awaits his new sentence, Lizard also awaits his new identity. He told Ramirez there should be no bloodshed. But then he added: If something comes at us, you cant help it. But Wino rejected Lizard. To avoid raising suspicion as a frequent mailer, she set up post-office boxes and had inmates write to other Norteos, who forwarded the correspondence to her. Im not sure you can undo it.. A grand jury indictment was in the works. In a corner of his home thats been scribbled on with black markers by one of his kids, Sir Dyno still works daily, mixing beats on a computer, recording new rhymes, diddling on a keyboard. Dec. 22, 2021 5 AM PT. It remains to be seen ultimately whether this prosecution was warranted, he said in accepting the guilty pleas. But one year later, his family moved to Long Beach, the heart of Sureo country. Police dogs sniffed through his car and came up with three ounces of crystal meth. All rights reserved. Helton checked out Grattons business licenses, and learned of Sir Dynos involvement through the music distributor. They were getting orders in and out of that prison in no time. If he was going to hold the case together, hed need to account for his own alleged crimes as a snitch. After three decades, Nuestra Familia is now an institution on Northern California streets and is spreading rapidly through the suburbs of the Central Valley, gang investigator Lewis said. Prosecutors say the You can cancel at any time. Time to go, the agent said. Its not realistic to integrate them now, said Holguin, now retired from the Department of Corrections. I am just as dangerous as they are.. 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. Click here to follow the step-by-step murder of Brown Bob, as conducted from inside prison walls. One day two months ago, federal agents arrived at her home, and she was swept into the program. In May of 2001, Lizard met with Martin Ramirez, a gang member from Salinas. Lizard had made other deals, too. The strings of evidence crossed, and the investigation grew, joined by the FBI and dubbed Operation Black Widow. He said he felt no jitters, nor did he question his loyalties to the brothers he was betraying. During his time with Nuestra Raza, Gratton learned the boot camp basics: how to make shanks, decode letters, and memorize the NF Constitution. Whatever it is, you gotta go to the extreme. He said that was where he picked up the nickname Lizard, from friends who admired his clandestine nature.. Both were steeped in the Jehovahs Witnesses faith. In all, 21 people were indicted in the FBIs three-year investigation into Nuestra Familia, code-named Operation Black Widow. Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "our family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California. They had all their dirty laundry to air out and they were allowing those agendas to decide how they acted, what they wanted the gang to do, how they were conducting affairs within the gang. If he went back to Pelican Bay, his elders would be upset to see him. I told him, I know exactly who you are,' Holguin recalled. At any one time, an estimated two to three hundred members are incarcerated there, including the gangs top three generals. Its the life story of a petty hood who reached his full criminal potential only afterentering the California prison system. His teen angst surfaced one day when he threatened to kill his vice principal. Inside, he was greeted by FBI agents. She disguised her own missives as legal mail from a fictitious San Francisco attorney and sent them directly back into the Secured Housing Unit, where all three gang generals were locked up. Now, nearly all Norte-o soldiers and Nuestra Familia regiment captains across California answer to Cervantes, gang experts say, but re-establishing the gang's control over the streets has not been easy. 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. Sicc OG. After the gang member sent word to his people on the street, the witnesses to Lizards crime were persuaded not to show up for trial. New soldiers became captains and generals by stabbing or killing people. Theyre trying to say that when I met Robert Gratton I started selling drugs for him, and to finance the G.U.N. In hindsight, the move only solidified the stature of race-based gangs, said Daniel Vasquez, a former San Quentin prison warden and gang investigator. And I wanted to go high.. After they wade through all of the evidence, jurors will then be asked to turn their attention to David Rocha. He seems likely to face civil and/or criminal penalties for what appears to be at best mismanagement and at worst blatant corruption that. Its getting airtime on radio stations in the Central Valley, and Sir Dyno has gone into super-marketing campaign mode, making a goal to get the ballad single Daddys Home in rotation on 75 radio stations nationwide. Everybody knows that. Following his arrival at the jail, Dyno was interviewed by Thomas Ribota, another Modesto detective. His character on the track writes a letter to his daughter, apologizing for his absence while she grows up. 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. 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. Then he helped the FBI take the gang down. According to Ribotas report, when he asked about the rappers affiliation, Rocha denied having any gang involvement but is a norteo. A small minority within the gang has not transferred loyalty to Cervantes, Santa Cruz County's Morales said. Thats when I started pulling away, he says. He was all business, all the time.. Within minutes, the gang member confessed his role in Nuestra Familia and offered to trade information for leniency. These defendants wisely elected to plead guilty rather than face the prospect of Mr. Hernandez appearance as a trial witness against them.. When you look back, it didnt help us like we thought it would. He was as bright and loyal as they came, so Cuete could trust him.. 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. He also was responsible for ensuring the battalions on the streets were holding fast against Sureos and sending drug profits to help pay the legal bills of their incarcerated generals. Henry Happy Cervantes spoke to Lizard alone. 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. of Tulare County. You arent just talking about some poor criminal who was abused by the NF and got drawn into the criminal net. Black tattoo ink scribbled across their forearms and crawled up their necks, and some of them hid stone-faced beneath dark Ray-Ban-style glasses. If Lizard wanted to buy it, Silent would ask only $15,000 cash. Besides directing the tone of the project, Gratton asked to narrate the intro. This is a combined effort to enlighten the worthy, as the time is now that we must leave old attitudes to the past, and adopt new and more meaningful and fulfilling ideas. 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. He crawled into his living room before dying in his familys arms. But while prosecutors were assembling their final case against the gang, Lizard was drug-tested as part of the terms of his release. Then he waited. They didnt care about agendas like that.. The large XIV across his throat represented the fourteenth letter of the alphabet, N, for Norte. If he wrote Dear Love, every sixth word mattered. There was Henry "Happy" Cervantes, built like . In November 1986, Lizard tried out these new skills on another inmate and was transferred to San Quentin. He rapped about how much money hed make, how famous hed get, how many women he could tag, how many people hed shoot. Silent also provided Lizard with a stolen Dodge Durango to test-drive. He was more than just a studio rapper, he says. The former leaders include James "Tibbs" Morado, Joseph "Pinky" Hernandez, Gerald "Cuete" Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez. Not only was there one less Sureo, but Lizard also showed a knack for attacking without detection. We shared a common goal, and that goal was to be the very NF members who put the organization back on track.. [21] Copyright Weeklys All rights reserved. According to one source, Ribota took the CD to the San Joaquin County district attorneys office to see if it constituted an official threat to a police officer. 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. But as his FBI handlers dug further into Lizards tenure as their employee, they unraveled other disturbing facts that threatened to compromise the credibility of their star witness. Rubalcaba is accused in court papers of ordering In an interview last year, Zilversmit said Lizard and his FBI handlers were culpable in the death of Sanchez. 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. Holguin also was searching for evidence that connected Lizard to a larger operation. only to sell records. I was already doing what I was doing, you know? 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 CD includes Nuestra Familia artwork and a statement that the success of this project has resulted from true Norteo unity we applaud the Carnalismo we would also like to give a special thanks to our family [emphasis theirs] and all the warriors. Trial witness R.G. 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. was drawing the attention its makers craved, and then some. Like a religious convert eager to please his superiors, Lizards first efforts impressed his would-be peers. The words didnt sound right to Lizard. And I was part of that policy. All those guys didnt want to see me up there. Ramiro Goose Garcia from Stockton complained that the gang wasnt sufficiently exploiting the Central Valley drug market. Big Smiley immediately ordered his soldier to enforce gang law back in C-Facility. 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.. 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. Hed proved he had the muscle to ascend within Nuestra Familia. Lo-fi beats backed simple, repetitive keyboard riffs. 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. Cuete and Lizard proved just how far their reach extended in early 1999. While working as an informant, he tested positive for drug use. The theory went, if we separated the two gangs, wed have less problems, Vasquez said. Im a Northerner, he says, arms wide. And though prison officials recently reorganized the housing in a way that slows down gang communications, coded directives are still smuggled out that translate to violence in California cities and farm towns. They were much smaller than the Mexican Mafia, so they used it to their advantage, gang expert Jared Lewis said. Membership. They pulled in young guys by the bushel.. Happy was hardcore, with a permanent smile beneath his Fu Manchu mustache. Then, several weeks later, a Pelican Bay investigator intercepted a letter penned by Lizard to one of his superiors. Address: 318 Harrison Street, Suite 302, Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: (510) 879-3700 www.EastBayExpress.com More by Justin Berton Lizard is a Rat new AltWeeklies Award - Feature Story East Bay Express | Justin Berton | 04-21-2008 | Media Tags: media Growing Up Right new It is here that the stories begin to diverge: Rocha claims that in the eleven or so months he knew Gratton, the parolee never discussed his ties to the highly secretive prison gang. My stuff has softened up a lot, Sir Dyno says. They taught him to grind down plastic shampoo bottles into shanks for knifing an attacker, and to roll up the pages of National Geographic as makeshift spear handles. Im just going to wait for the trial.. He always offered to learn more and do more to serve the organization. A federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down 21 indictments against gang members, including the three generals and captain Gerald Cuete Rubalcaba. It wasnt quite the impression he wanted to make. It's the most comprehensive and trusted online destination for law enforcement agencies and police departments worldwide. Of course, once the hit list is reactivated, Lizard knows that his name will sit at the very top. But he was undergoing a lot. But at the time, it seemed like the right thing to do. Sir Dyno was born. If they come for him, he said, he worries only for them, his enemies. His teen angst surfaced one day when he threatened to kill his vice principal. 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. To the broke and ambitious rapper, the deal sounded too good to refuse. In the meantime, Holguin had talked to Lizards sister and made a plea: Tell Danny to change his life. Not only does Rocha appear on the cover of the CD wearing the norteo colors (red), reads one motion, but he is seen giving gang signs for the norteos. who joined the FBI and other agencies in an investigation of street 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. But on his way out the door, the veteran agent made Lizard an offer. Nuestra Familia is organized in a military-like hierarchy, with generals running the gang from inside prison and paroled regiment captains running the streets outside. Lizard and the government deny this accusation. They made their beds, and so did Bob. If you ever want to help yourself, you can. Im wearing a wire. Then Lizard got lucky. Daniel Lizard Hernandez was awakened by an FBI agent at 4 a.m. a few weeks ago. I also learned the informant was skimming money from the Nuestra Familia street leaders and not reporting this to me.. Jacobs told Viramontes he was marked, but promised he wouldn't let it happen in his yard. After that, he said, I didnt want any speculation coming my way because we still had meetings to take care of. Lizard said he compensated by assisting in unauthorized drug and arms deals. He had two daughters to support, and payments from other rap projects were slow coming in. I was a soldier, and a good one.. Since at least the 1920s, many California Latinos have thought of themselves in the same way that other residents of the state divide themselves: as Northern Californians, or Norteos; and Southern Californians, or Sureos. Rocha did not seem to understand the reason for the arrest or the charge. As a captain, he answered only to a handful of higher-ranking capos and the three generals inside Pelican Bay. The guys I played with didnt care Norteo, Sureo, or what side you were on. I told him, Listen. Later, when Heltons team arrested an alleged Nuestra Familia member named Vidal Spider Fabela during a traffic stop, they found G.U.N. All you have to do is find out where the motherfucker is, pull up on the side of them., Lizard ended the conversation. CD to argue that Sir Dyno knew Gratton was affiliated with the mob. Lizard initially followed his script and pushed for peace, according to the transcripts. Heres my card.'. Rap is an exaggeration of life, he says, just like in a movie. With most prison gangs who try and use the mail, theres a big lag time things get lost, hits get reversed so theres a lot of miscommunication. Thousands bought the album in the major record chains like Sam Goody's. Gratton knew nothing about the music business, but he had bricks of cash and a simple plan: to produce a rap CD that would work as a recruiting tool for Nuestra Familia and also serve to launder the gangs drug money. The risks had Lizard thinking. He was betraying these people hed come up with, people hed been close to. Lizard said Cuete asked him to establish a line of communication that couldnt be detected by guards. When his handlers shook him from his slumber, Lizard felt relieved, not irritated. Drawing the attention its makers craved, and some of them hid stone-faced beneath dark Ray-Ban-style.. Estimated three hundred members are incarcerated there, including the three generals Spider Fabela during traffic. 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