EPISODE DROP Texas Crime Stories goes inside the double life and murder of Balcones Heights police officer Julian Pesina
While on the stand, he also admitted to murdering Billy Padilla, another Texas Mexican Mafia member who was killed in 2013 for failing to turn over drug money.Ruben “Menace” Reyes who’s also known as Menace, pled guilty in July 2016 to ordering the hit on Pesina.It was revealed in court he also shot and killed Texas Mexican Mafia members Mark “Lefty” Bernal, Carlos “Worm” Chapa, and Johnny “Smiley” Solis in January 2014.
“They could have picked any city in Texas to make their capital. But they picked San Antonio to be their capital,” Rodriguez said. “When the California Mexican mafia became so large, they chose to branch out. And one of the states they branch to was Texas. Well, because San Antonio convicts were so loyal, there was only one place to make their capital, and that was San Antonio. So they got a guy named Herb Huerta, who is still alive today. He’s the lifelong president of Mexican Mafia.
“They do not want to garner attention from law enforcement or from the community. In the end, they are still a criminal enterprise. And so they don’t want a lot of attention... You know, when I say they are large, they’re now spanning states now,” Rodriguez said. “And now they’re raising their children into it. And so, you know, the gang membership doesn’t go away. It now is more strength and it’s become family and that makes them very dangerous and very large.
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