• Facebook
  • Google Plus
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed
  • Twitter

Menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
Header image

MyNewsLA.comLogo

Breaking news for greater Los Angeles and Orange County

Menu

Skip to content
  • Crime
  • Government
  • Business
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Hollywood
  • Life
  • OC
  • Studio Weighing Options For `Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett
  • Man Whose Drug-Making Sparked Destructive Fire Sentenced
  • Warrant Issued After No-Show For Man Charged With Assaulting Mother
  • Two Doctors Among Four Arrested In Southland DEA Drug Sweep
  • Cold Storm Brings Snow, Hail To Low-Lying Southland Areas

Home » Crime » This Article

Imprisoned Mexican Mafia leader gets gang peace treaty, controls LA criminals

Posted by Editor on June 30, 2017 in Crime | 5,517 Views | Leave a response
Share this article:
Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedinmail
Example of Mexican Mafia tattoo, not from someone in the story. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

A 26-year-old gang member will be sentenced in September after he pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges in which three street gangs were united by an imprisoned Mexican Mafia leader.

The gangs then were able to control criminal activity along the Los Angeles River from Elysian Park to Burbank.

Giovanni “Suspect” Olvera, of Atwater Village, entered his plea in Los Angeles to one federal count each of racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession. According to his plea agreement Thursday, he faces 15 1/2 years behind bars when he is sentenced Sept. 25.

Olvera, a member of a gang that claims an area north of Los Feliz Boulevard between San Fernando Road and the river, provided methamphetamine to the enterprise and collected “taxes,” according to court papers.

The June 2015 indictment describes a scheme in which the Mexican Mafia worked to unite three longtime rival gangs under the control of Arnold “Arnie” Gonzales, a Mexican Mafia leader serving a life sentence in Pelican Bay.

According to the 27-count indictment, a “peace treaty” imposed by Gonzales in 2010 brought the gangs together “to control the narcotics trafficking and other illicit activities committed in their territories” of Atwater Village, Glendale and northeast Los Angeles.

The indictment alleges a conspiracy to violate the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and accuses 22 defendants of being “members and associates of a criminal organization engaged in, amongst other things, conspiracy to traffic in narcotics, narcotics trafficking, extortion, and crimes of violence, including conspiracy to commit murder, murder, attempted murder, and robbery.”

Like this story? Don’t miss any breaking news from MyNewsLA.com. Sign up here for your free newsletter.

 

–City News Service

Imprisoned Mexican Mafia leader gets gang peace treaty, controls LA criminals was last modified: June 30th, 2017 by Editor

>> Want to read more stories like this? Get our Free Daily Newsletters Here!

Follow us:
Facebooktwittergoogle_plusrss
Posted in Crime | Tagged criminal control, feds, guilty, Indictment, LA River, leader, Mexican Mafia, peace treaty, Plea Deal, prison, racketeer, sentence

Related Posts

Missing imageSouth L.A. Man Sent To Prison For Robbing Secret Service Agent→

Missing imageRegistered Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Sending Obscene Photo to Girl→

Missing imageMan Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Mother, Injuring Father→

Missing imageShoplifting Turned Violent Nets 3 Years Prison for Thief→

News from idealmedia.com

Advertisement

Get The Latest News by Email!

Sign up here for our free newsletters. We’ll send you the latest headlines every morning and every weekday afternoon.

 

FORECAST FOR DOWNTOWN LA

Clear
Thursday
Clear. Lows overnight in the low 40s.
Clear
Friday
Mainly sunny. High 61F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Wunderground.com
 

Most Popular Today

  • Worker Killed When Jet Bridge Tire Explodes at John Wayne Airport 400 views
  • Two Doctors Among Four Arrested In Southland DEA Drug Sweep 400 views
  • Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz To Speak in Santa Monica 400 views
  • Ex-HR director of Passages Malibu not meet expectations? 200 views
  • Victorian Times in Downtown Riverside This Weekend 200 views

©2019 CalNews Inc.

Menu

  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service