Awardwinning investigative journalist and author chris blatchford tells the neverbeforetold true story of the most powerful gang in americaand one of the most brutal. But the book also reveals enriquez and his crews total commitment to hoodlum. Before the mafia captured the american crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the society of the black hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and. Rene boxer enriquez born july 7, 1962 in artesia, california is a former mexican american gang member.
Law enforcement officials report that the mexican mafia is the most powerful gang within the california. He killed for the gang and ordered the deaths of many men. The bloody rise and redemption of boxer enriquez, a mexican mob killer by chris blatchford, mexican maf. Born in the prisons of california in the late 1960s, nuestra familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state and. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the. Looking at the black hand from a sociological perspective, the book discusses the newsmaking criminology that tied.
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