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Mexikanemi

Mexikanemi, also known as the Texas Mexican Mafia, is a Mexican-American prison and street gang established in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison system in 1984.[4][2] It functions separately from the original California Mexican Mafia, and members consider themselves primarily tied to the area of Aztlán, formerly Mexican territories in the southwestern United States.[5][6] The group engages in a wide range of illegal activities including drug trafficking, loan sharking, and money laundering.[7][8]

Founded

1984 (1984)[1]

Heriberto Huerta[1]

Huntsville Unit, Texas, United States[1]

1984–present

Texas[2]

Mexican and Mexican American[2]

4,000[2]

Drug trafficking, human trafficking, loansharking, money laundering, extortion, murder[2]

Gulf Cartel[2]
Juárez Cartel[2]
Mexican Mafia[3]
Los Zetas[2]

Nuestra Familia[3]
Texas Syndicate[3]

Investigations and prosecutions[edit]

2012 indictments[edit]

In 2012 numerous law enforcement agencies collaborated in an investigation that resulted in the arrest of 25 alleged members of the group including a local law enforcement officer, Michael Mares of the Onalaska, Texas police.[11] The indictment alleged that Mares conspired with the group to provide them with "hand guns, assault rifles, hand restraints and even internal police information",[12] and that the group as a whole was working to "traffic drugs and carry out other illegal gang business, including selling numerous assault rifles, and detonation cord".[11]