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. wide. erecta emia {AAMT naa has ne emer tan: janine tty eters et etter CPU tee + tet (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 23 -—— Familia,” noted tke-investi- BATE gator. Nuestra Familia, Our Family as it translates, ts the other major Chica center and is thus temporar- lated body beneath a pile of bleody towels in the shgwer most powerful prison gaiig ; hi gang struggling for suprerj- 00 y icano racy within the prison sy3- enerto Medina is locked away in an isolation cell in ar in risons San Quentin's adjustment ily safe from Mafia “hit oll men.” By Robert Hollis La Mafia de Mexicanos js San Quentin guards found Edward Salino Lopez’ multi- described hy Guthrie as the room of the prison gynasium. in the history of the Califdr- ’ Death was attributed toa nia penal system. An esti- massive skull fracture al-_ mated 200 of the state’s 21,- though he could have aseas- ‘Mation officer De- 500 inmates are members. i} died frum the four deep Partment of Co ine exert var ence with khife weunds in his u “et ee in the system, far beyon Pper Annihilation their numbers. ‘Members of iit: back, Around tus neck was af “They'll keep stickin tne fag are a etioes gurvote-tike instrument tog Sach other until one sid@ oo’) ing — of Los Angeles _Wipes out the other.” said a Mission District Chicano ex- - convict who spent two years at San Quentin. In early August. John ‘Medina Jr. a 48 year o Los Angeles parole violatoy, was attacked in broad dajr- light in the center of the Quentin main exercise yard. Seconds later, Medina lay on the hot tarmac with four deep slashes. close to vital ‘organs in his neck and chest. For two days he lay near death in the prison hos- pital. keep the 3% year.old robbe: hom crying out. ‘Nothing Unusual’ About 50 inmates were in the gymnasium at the time. None reported seeing any- thing unusual, The May 29 killing of Lo- pez was the first inmate ge of the year at San and San Francisco. Nuestra Familia, with a few more “heavy entin, although not the first convict death siate- Lopez was a “brother” in the “Mexican Mafia,” ac- cording to Lee DeBord, then; — Prison iniurmation officer the prison information offi- | Bill Nyberg termed the Me- cet, Lopez’ brutal nourder - ig dina attack “revenge.” Was another in a continui . series of knifings, cbings A Brother — and drug deaths credited tol, A Department of Correc- ike two feuding «Chicano tons investigator explained: gangs in the California penal <““He Just happened to he tife system. brother of Roberto ‘Dariit’ St is a blood-fueted war of Medina and they eo / survival, jn jhe, words of him. Roberto Medina is a rank- Phil Guthrie, public infor- ing levtetent “Nuestra p 165. Drpene betas oni bebe coAhEMECPEAC PEEPS ERED SELENCOE AS ASR IREA EE RSE AOC SO , | may ST, wee eee CGhiuirane pa irate pate, nan & } newspaper, tily mn 2° t",) | | | S.F gxaminer pe cane er ee a ea NE UE EE st oY m7 San Francisco,Calif. — 8-27~73 rg ar Fanal fe j | i MEXICAN MAFIA Charact er: c we Clessifica Submitting O tice: SF. ' 1 ‘* ‘aq investigatet ne ame