SACRAMENTO — A Mexican Mafia member with a reputation for generating lots of illicit revenue was stabbed to death at a Northern California prison Thursday, in what appears to be an attack from within his own gang.
Both suspects, who are not related, appear to be affiliated with the Mexican Mafia or its subsidiaries. Ray Martinez was identified in aas a Mexican Mafia member. Juan Martinez has a tattoo on his neck of the number 13, symbol for both the Mexican Mafia and its primary offshoot, the Sureño gang. In 2019, Torres was the lone Mexican Mafia member to be indicted alongside more than a dozen alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in a major racketeering case. Torres was accused of conspiring with Aryan Brotherhood leaders to distribute heroin, while others in the indictment were accused of murder conspiracies and fatal prison stabbings.