LA Sheriff Deputy Charged in County Jail Mexican Mafia Smuggling Network
“Socalj” for Borderland Beat
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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy is among 18 people indicted by a grand jury this week as part of a sophisticated drug smuggling operation involving Mexican Mafia associates inside the LA County jail system.
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The Deputy worked for the anti-gang unit known as Operation Safe Jails, a special investigative unit within the jail that is in charge of stopping exactly what he is accused of.
“It is very ironic, but at the same side of that coin, in speaking with the deputies who are currently working for Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office stated that it’s actually pretty common that stuff like this happen,” said Saren Prime with the Prime Initiative and a former deputy.
“He was currently being watched by other deputies which they reported the wrong doing,” Prime explained.
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Meiser specifically was charged with a non-inmate furnishing a controlled substance to a person in custody, attempted non-inmate furnishing a controlled substance to a person in custody, conspiracy to commit non-inmate furnishing a controlled substance to a person in custody and participation in a criminal street gang.
The indictment details a number of security videos that allegedly show Meiser speaking to some of the other defendants in the case. He can be seen handing a bag to one of them and in another instance he is seen receiving a plastic bag from a woman at a Lancaster gas station, which contained about a point of black tar heroin. He is then accused of bringing the bag into the North County Correctional Facility.
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| Slain eMe figure Michael “Mosca” Torres headed the drug smuggling operation. |
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On Jan. 13, 2022, for example, “Estela Guerrero instructed David ‘Too Tall’ Fraysure to send the proceeds of narcotics to the homie from Rockwood who was ‘one above’ Fraysure,” according to the indictment, which also states that, five days later, “an unidentified co-conspirator housed at NCCF (aka ‘Green Eyes’) reported to Guerrero, that co-conspirator ‘Scrappy’ reported that ‘Kristina’ (Rosa Kristina Martinez) had ‘picked it up’ yesterday.”
The inmates often used coded language, according to the complaint, but the communications were made over the Inmate Telephone Monitoring System, which are recorded by the LASD.
In one such Feb. 27, 2024, call made after 11 p.m., “the ‘white Jordans’ (coded language consistent with methamphetamine) were sold to her for 27 ($2,700), and the ‘black Jordans’ (coded language consistent with heroin) was sold to her for 25 ($2,500).”
In 2016, Torres seized control of the Los Angeles County jail system from his Folsom prison cell, according to evidence presented in prosecutions of his lieutenants. This was following a power struggle between various Mexican Mafia lieutenants who ran the LA jails for Mexican Mafia member Eulalio “Lalo” Martinez after he died of a heroin overdose in 2013 while imprisoned at Pelican Bay. Torres had controlled the LA County Men’s Central Jail prior to Martinez when Mosca was housed there from 2003-2007 during his attempted murder trial.
Source: https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2025/02/la-sheriff-deputy-charged-in-county.html
