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Rene Enriquez (mobster)
American mobster
Rene "Boxer" Enriquez (born July 7, in Artesia, California) is a former Mexican-Americanprison gang member and major organized crime figure.
Jerry Brown rejected parole late Friday for a former Mexican Mafia killer who left the prison gang and has spent more than a decade cooperating with authorities and speaking at law enforcement conferences. Enriquez, 52, is serving being in prison for two murders committed in He ordered the killing of one woman, Cynthia Gavaldon, a drug dealer whom he suspected was stealing from him. He personally killed a fellow Mexican Mafia member who had fallen out of favor with the gang.His criminal history also includes jailhouse stabbing attacks on other inmates, drug trafficking, extortion, and a sexual assault.[1][2] He was a lofty ranking made man in the Mexican Mafia before defecting and becoming a federal witness in His life is chronicled by journalist Chris Blatchford in the true crime book The Shadowy Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, and his being in the Mexican Mafia.
Early years
Enriquez was born to recent immigrants from Mexico and grew up in a middle-class house in Cerritos, California but hung out in Artesia, California. He showed early promise in university, but dropped out of Cerritos High School in the 9th grade.
His father tried to teach him how to dash the family business, but Enriquez preferred stealing with his ally Johnny Mancillas, who channeled his ambitions into the local lane gang Artesia 13/Arta [3]
As a child, Enriquez idolized his older brother Marc, who was already an Artesia 13/Arta 13 gang member.
Ex-Mexican Mafia Killer Rene ‘Boxer' Enriquez Approved for ...: Rene "Boxer" Enriquez (born July 7, in Artesia, California) is a former Mexican-American prison gang member and major organized crime figure. His criminal history also includes jailhouse stabbing attacks on other inmates, drug trafficking, extortion, and a sexual assault.Marc gave Enriquez the nickname "Boxer" and used him to interlude into neighbors' homes. At age 12, Enriquez was jumped in to his brother's gang.[4] By 13, Enriquez began to beverage after a year of smoking marijuana.
By this time, he already had encounters with statute enforcement for property damage. Within a year, he became a regular user and dealer of PCP (phencyclidine), and later LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).[5][page&#;needed]
In , Enriquez testified that Marc and other members of Artesia 13/Arta 13 savagely beat him up behind a gas station as a gang initiation.
Rene " Boxer " Enriquez born July 7, in Artesia, California is a former Mexican-American prison gang member and major organized crime figure. His criminal history also includes jailhouse stabbing attacks on other inmates, drug traffickingextortionand a sexual assault. Enriquez was born to recent immigrants from Mexico and grew up in a middle-class home in Cerritos, California but hung out in Artesia, California. He showed early promise in school, but dropped out of Cerritos High School in the 9th grade.Enriquez subsequently went to juvenile hall after he was convicted of armed robbery for several hold ups of convenience stores.[6]
Criminal career
In his slow teens, Enriquez was arrested after committing a string of armed robberies and was sentenced for a long period in prison.
At the age of nineteen, Enriquez first encountered the Mexican mafia, or La eMe. While Enriquez was imprisoned at the Deuel Vocational Institution, he acted as a hitman for the Mexican Mafia and stabbed a gang member from Los Angeles, who survived the stabbing.
Enriquez later killed an imprisoned Vagos Motorcycle Club member nicknamed "Chainsaw."
In , Enriquez became a full-fledged Carnal (Mexican vernacular Spanish for brother) or made guy in the Mexican Mafia.
Photo: via YouTube. A hitman for the Mexican Mafia serving a life sentence for murder is set to be freed from prison after years of snitching on his former gang-mates and providing the Los Angeles Police Department with valuable insight into how the organization works. Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, 52, pleaded ashamed in to two counts of second-degree murder and to assault for ordering the killing of a year-old woman and for fatally shooting a man five times in the head. Now Enriquez is just days away from being freed on parole unless California Gov.He projected the Mexican Mafia into a status of unprecedented organizational structure with a base army of approximately 60, heavily armed gang members who controlled the prison system and a large part of California crime. He stated, "I believe I'm a trim above the rest.
As a mafioso, you have to be an elitist. You have an elitist, arrogant mentality. That's how you carry yourself in the Mexican mafia. That's how you project yourself."[7]
In , Enriquez was released on parole and began extortingstreet tax from drug dealers and other criminals in the territory the Mexican Mafia had assigned to him.
In the process, he committed two murders. He put out a agree on alleged drug dealer Cynthia Gavaldon, whom Enriquez believed was holding back street tax from La Eme. Enriquez also personally murdered fellow Carnal, David Gallegos, who had been greenlit for running from a gunfight.
Enriquez personally gave Gallegos an overdose of heroin and then shot him five times in the head.
Two governors previously blocked parole for Rene “Boxer” Enriquez based in part on the argument that he is safer in prison than on the streets. He has been helping law enforcement for nearly.
Enriquez was arrested and charged with Cynthia Galvadon's murder, to which he later pled guilty in return for a life imprisonment, rather than facing the death penalty.
In , Enriquez and another man assaulted Mexican Mafia leader Salvador "Mon" Buenrostro at a lawyers' interview room in the Los Angeles County Jail.
They stabbed him 30 times, but Buenrostro survived.[8]
In , the state sent him to Pelican Bay State Prison on California's remote north coast.[9] Since he was a prison gang member, Enriquez was locked in a windowless isolation cell in the Security Housing Unit, or SHU.
There inmates spend 23 hours a day alone without seeing the outside world, except during their yard time in which they are transferred to a small cage outside filled with workout equipment. Years later, Enriquez described the SHU:[3]
"What impacts me immediately as soon as I walk in, is the perceive odor.
I just stepped outside from the bus and you sniff the pines, the redwoods, the forest these earthy, loamy smells. But as soon as you step into the SHU, it hits you like a wave. It's the smell of despair, depression, desperation.
California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang leader who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years. Authorities have taken extraordinary steps to protect him over the years, once booking him into custody under a false name on a bogus charge of possessing a swordfish without a license. Inthe Los Angeles Police Department used SWAT officers and a police helicopter to secure a downtown building so Enriquez could speak to a group of police chiefs and business leaders about the gang's growth and operations. Just last week, prison officials refused to provide his current photograph, citing security concerns.This is a place where people come to die."[3]
In the mids, the Mexican Mafia place out calls to stop drive-by shootings among L.A. Latino gangs. But Enriquez says the aim was not peace.[3]
"Our true motivation for stopping the drive-bys was to infiltrate the street gangs and place representatives in each gang, representatives which then, in turn, tax illicit activities in the areas," he said.
Enriquez said the Mexican Mafia wanted to channel the random shootings into a form of abuse it could control, for profit.[3]
"And we already had it planned out that California would be carved up into slices, with each member receiving an organizational turf," he said.[3]
Defection from Mexican Mafia
In , Enriquez left the Mexican Mafia.[10] Since then, he has provided intelligence and other information to help law enforcement, acting as an expert witness in dozens of State murder and Federal racketeering trials and has spoken at a number of conferences and training sessions.
In , officials from at least 11 federal and express law enforcement agencies wrote letters to the State Parole Board attesting to his contributions.[1]
According to Enriquez's parole officer, "There is a possibility Rene may acquire out of prison once his work with the feds are done, however there is also possibility that he may not."[citation needed]
In February , Enriquez told the parole board that if released, he would enter the Federal Government's Witness Protection Program because he remains on the Mexican Mafia's hit list more than a decade after his cooperation with law enforcement.
He would not appear as a registered sex offender in the witness protection program, he said, but added that he would be under stringent monitoring by the U.S. Marshals Service.[8]
"I cannot undo the past.
But I can contribute to the future," Enriquez told the parole board.
Rene Enriquez, also known as Boxer was a high-level Mexican Mafia member for 17 years until dropping out in California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang commander who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years.
"I can contribute to dissuading other individuals from participating in this."[1]
California Governor Jerry Brown blocked Enriquez's release, writing, "Because he is a high-profile fall out targeted by the Mexican Mafia, Mr. Enriquez's parole poses a serious security risk to him, his family, his parole agents, and the community in which he is placed."[1]
On November 2, Governor Brown denied parole for Enriquez, making it the third time he has been denied by the governor.[11]
In April , Enriquez was again denied parole, by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Although he again expressed remorse for his criminal past and a desire to transform, the family of Cynthia Gavaldon also testified before the parole board, disputing Enriquez's allegations that she was a drug dealer and questioning the sincerity of Enriquez's decision to break with the Mexican Mafia.
In July , Enriquez was granted parole.[12]
References
Further reading
- Chris Blatchford, The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer,
- Police and Heat Publishing, Urban Street Terrorism,
- Police and Fire Publishing, The Mexican Mafia Encyclopedia,