SAN JOSE — Federal judges within the Bay Space have sentenced three males in reference to the large 2021 sequence of indictments focusing on a Northern California jail gang and it “regiment” of subsets within the South Bay, courtroom information present.
Andrew “Indo” Anchondo, 24, Eliseo “Snow” Martinez, 28; and Nicholas “Prime Time” Mendez, 46, had been all indicted on racketeering expenses in August 2021. The indictment alleged that the three — together with six co-defendants — had been a part of a “Santa Clara County Regiment of the Norteño gang, which operated on the route of the Nuestra Familia, a Northern California-based jail gang whose leaders had been charged in a separate however associated prosecution.
On July 28, Mende — who prosecutors described as a low-level drug supplier with “a severe and longstanding drug dependancy” — was given the harshest sentence of the three, a 54-month federal jail time period for promoting methamphetamine to profit the Norteños. Martinez, who admitted to promoting a half-pound of methamphetamine in a plea deal, was sentenced in June to twenty months.
At a late June courtroom listening to, Anchondo, who admitted to robbing a San Jose Arco fuel station at gunpoint in 2017 and promoting 2.9 grams of methamphetamine, was given 41 months in federal jail. His lawyer wrote in courtroom information that he's “actually drained” of being in a gang and was primarily introduced into the approach to life by his household, beginning at a younger age.
The judgments are among the many first within the federal and state investigation focusing on each gangs, which led to indictments towards dozens of alleged Nuestra Familia members and associates. A bigger case charging the gang’s alleged leaders with crimes starting from drug trafficking to homicide conspiracies remains to be in its early levels; protection attorneys and prosecutors are presently debating the defendants’ pretrial launch circumstances in addition to the schedule for discovery, courtroom information present.