Nuestra Familia "overseer" Andrew "Mad Dog" Cervantes, 60, of Stockton, received a 36-year sentence. Its leaders control and direct the groups criminal activities both inside and outside of the prison system. One of those recruits was, 33-year-old San Mateo resident Jaime HennessyCervantes, 33,who was sentenced to 32 years in prison on Wednesday. Stretch told the press that, Four additional members of the Nuestra Familia gang were sentenced for the heinous crimes they perpetrated upon our community. Arches cellmate, Jose Hernandez-Vasquez, was charged with first-degree murder. As of 2009, Lewisburg federal prison was designated as a Special Management Unit (SMU) intended to house the most violent and disruptive inmates in the Bureau of Prisons. HenryHappyCervantes, 52, of Lodi, and AlbertoBirdLarez, 48, of Salinas, were Andrew Cervantes commanders in the Bay Area, andoversaw the trafficking of methamphetamine, heroine, and cocaine from 2012 to 2013, authorities said. Eight co-defendants previously pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and other offenses and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from eight to 15 years. The Nuestra Familia (Spanish for Our Family), was created in 1968 as a response to increased pressure from the Mexican Mafia within the Californian prison system, the Nuestra Familia group is a mostly Mexican-American criminal association comprising inmates throughout Northern California. Herrera was later murdered. //
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