Member of Mexican Mafia convicted of murder
SANTA ANA – An Orange County federal jury has found a member of the Mexican Mafia guilty of several charges, including murder, five conspiracies to commit murder, attempted murder and racketeering, prosecutors said late Thursday.
Following a monthlong trial, jurors returned guilty verdicts Thursday after five hours of deliberations on all counts in the trial of Rolando Ontiveros, 38, of Pico Rivera, a man who prosecutors said rose to the highest levels in one faction of the Mexican Mafia in the late 1990s.
Ontiveros faces a mandatory life imprisonment plus 30 consecutive years in federal custody at his May 7 sentencing by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
The defendant, who evaded authorities for a decade, was at the center of a war between factions of the Mexican Mafia and encouraged the killing of a rival in a shooting that also left two others dead, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale told jurors in his opening statement in federal court.
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