Posted on 05/06/2023 6:27:02 AM PDT by Libloather
Ezequiel Romo had been gone a long time.
He went to prison in 1996. When he returned to Panorama City 18 years later, he didn't like what he saw.
He was going to "clean out house," Romo told another veteran of his gang. He would rid the neighborhood of rivals, of informants, of drug addicts and the do-nothings he considered dead weight.
Prosecutors said the 45-year-old made good on that promise: On Romo's orders, members of his gang, Blythe Street, turned on and killed one another in a string of murders that left eight dead, according to evidence presented at a months-long trial that began in March in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Romo used Blythe Street to raise his own standing within the Mexican Mafia, the prison-based syndicate whose ranks he hoped to join, witnesses testified. He put members of his gang to work selling the Mexican Mafia's drugs, collecting their debts and eliminating their enemies. Anyone who didn't go along, prosecutors said, was eliminated.
Testimony and Romo's text messages created the portrait of a micromanager who knew just one response to petty slights and suspicions. Get an unsanctioned tattoo? "Take care of it," Romo told his lieutenant. When the lieutenant, who dutifully orchestrated that murder and several more, got strung out and stopped returning Romo's calls, it was his turn to go.
And if you had something Romo wanted, like a kilogram of cocaine, why pay for it? His dealer got the same treatment: a bullet in the back.
"Why would you kill your own gang members?" Deputy Dist. Atty. Eric Siddall asked in his closing argument. "Because in Romo's world, if you don't fit the mold, if you don't do what he wants, you get killed."
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Sounds like Siddall is more upset with Romo's management style than anything else.....
This guy was acting pretty much like Stalin did. And you can buy Stalin shirts on Amazon. I wonder if Romo will get his own shirt.
“How to win friends and influence people -Prison Version”, is much diffetent that the “Outside Version”.
Now he knows.
“How to win friends and influence people -Prison Version”, is much diffetent that the “Outside Version”.
Now he knows.
The only reason that gangs exist is because they bribe politicians. This guy was just to messy. Expect more drugs and killings as we become north mexico.
I wonder if Romo will get his own shirt.
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I will declare myself as: ‘Grande’ will I get my own shirt?
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