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than the Mafia on its mem- bersitiy-twlis, is now five years old. ramilia members The Aryan Brotherhood,’ brotherhood. aS of California where White Gang group of violence-prone gpme largely fre. rura: a neo-Nazi,. white racist’ re: " Yeavy ‘ecucentrations of ex-motorcyclists, has loosely. despite his namie, has lost none of his power in the About 150 miles to the north. Joe Morgan, a con- victed murderer, counts the ican-Americans gather aligned itself with the Mexi-’ days until his release from to harvest crops. The two organizations rep- resent something new in the criminal history of the siate. Reaching Streets For the first time, said Jake Gunn, associate war- den at Folsom prison, pris- on-bred gangs are forming syndicates that are reaching the streets, . Already the Mafia — not fated to the Sicilian crime rganization — is to onopolize the heroin trade | from Mexico. According to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement i ; i, allas Edmundo Sanchez said a officials. the Mexican Malia Pasa. alias Eduardo Gonza- now controls 20 ta 30 gl all the heroin smug info the state across our southern border. And within every prison in ean Mafia. They kill 6r maim under “contract” for the Mafia. To meet this challenge, Familia members have tent- Chino state prison. .. Morgan is not of Mexican{ American ancestry. Ne : ertheless, his word, as tt. Demerida, his mij cording to Baja sources. California prison invesfi- gators believe Buckley ws paying about $60,000 a year Mexican police officials to keep from being extradited north on the heroin charge. Mrs. Demerida, according to a judicial state police re- port, possessed a Mexican. 38. BE- ice porarily : allied. themselves jij passes through the remarka- equivalent of 4 writ of ha- vith some of the more vi-} bly efficient prison inmate beas corpus. which was iberalion Army cadre in law to any Mexican Mafia and thus prevented her ar- brother. rest on any charge. it members of the Black § communication system,. is -signed by a Mexican judge e prison system. The result is an explosive situation which has prompt. ed extraordinary . security measures by Department of Corrections officials. k kot | Outside the squalid Mexi- can border city of Tijuana, Harry Gamboa Buckley. lez Cortez, sits and stares through ihe bars of La Mesa prison. Buckley faces charges of killing Roberto R. Parra on the state one or the other Aug, 21, 1972, according ta gang almost completely the Mexican Judicial State dominates the inmate rack- Police. He is a fugitive from els -~ narcotics, homosexual California where he is prostitution and “favors” charged with possession of from corrupt guards, 8 ounces of heroin. Raised in Barrio He was raised in Maravil- ja, on the edge of the East Los Angeles barrio, largest in the state. ° . “He talks like a Chicano. he acts like a Chicano. | therefore he is a Chicano."’. Department of Corrections investigator. Morgan is considered the most powerful leader in the Mexican Mafia behind bars in California. He is currently in Chino as a parole violator . from his previous murder , Bad Heroin Buckley's protection. did not cover murder, however. On a hot. cloudless sum- mer day last year, Roberto Parra, at one time the lary- est heroin dealer inthe S Diego area. came to looking for Buckley. “Buckley had cheated. Parra out of eight onnces of bad heroia and he (Parra) lost $4000 on the deal,” the Mexican Judicial Police re- port states. ; Parra and a friend, Gil- herto Guerrero, appeared at conviction. | Buckley’s*home and became x * & ‘ : embroiled in a heated ment over the alleged fey could live openly less} burg, i Department of Corrections undercover _ investigators, .S. Customs officials, fed- ral narcotics officers and police from Marin County to Tijuana all spoke with The Examiner in a three ntonth investigation of the prison war and the growing power of the gangs. The picture is bleak. O£-the 35 inmates who died violently in the California prisons last year,.at least 25 re casualties of the Chi- -quno war... iin 1972, 106 of the 216 in- ates stabbed, clubbed: or intentionally poisoned | with drugs were linked to the gang viekeneaw That Harry Gamhoa Buck- | Until last month, Buckley : than two blocks from a po- was living openly in Mexico, Hee station in Tijuana sheds Hirst in Tijuana and: later in some light on the power, {Agua Prieta in the Mexican both political and financial, j state of Sonora. Bucktey. 52, is believed to be. one af the {ap members of the Mexican Mafia south of the border, As such, he was a major source for 89 percent pure Mexican brown heroin smuggled to the ur. ban Centers of Californi> Still Powerfn. 166 Although now in prison and facing a possible sen- tence of more than 20 years for murder, California.inves- tigatory think Buckley, of . Mexitarramtrican ancestry | of the Mexican Mafia. 5 The convicted rebber. ef- cape artist and dope dealyr had been last arrested In Los Angeles on July 11, 1971, with a heroin cache worth lover = $220,000 at street. iprices. The next day. before a De- vartment of Corrections pa- role officer could place a hold on him, Buckley was bailed out of the Lus Angeles County jail. He fled south to the Ti-' juana area. They ved into a house with Daniela ~2, Parra pulled "8 38 revolver and fired at Buckley. Buckley, though wounded in the left stomach and right leg. managed to grah the revolver and fatal- . ly wound Parra. Mexican police said. Bleeding heavily. Buckley fled in an auto with Mrs, De- merida. The woman was. dropped -off at a local police Station (an odd place to stop, but unexplained) Buckley drove east to; Prieta where he was treat for his wounds by friends. Then Jast mopth be. re- turned to Tijuana. He was.