Ralph Rocha made secret tapes documenting his tenure as an informant. Were they an insurance policy? A way to blow off steam? An early stab at a screenplay?
In a city full of secrets, Ralph Guy Rocha kept more than most. As a member of the Mexican Mafia, Rocha was pursuing a deal with a drug cartel in Mexico called La Familia. The cartel had proposed a trade: an unending supply of methamphetamine if the Mexican Mafia protected the cartel's leaders in U.S. prisons. What no one in either criminal organization knew was that Rocha was an informant for the U.S.
He and his crew kicked in doors, “no mask, no nothing,” and handcuffed everyone inside. “Throw ‘em on the ground, search the pad, take all their guns, all their drugs. Whatever jewelry we wanted.” Rocha left them with a key to the handcuffs and a message: “You can’t sling drugs, can’t do nothing, unless you do it through me.” In 1995, a grand jury indicted Rocha and a dozen others in the first racketeering case targeting the Mexican Mafia.
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