A gang leader who orchestrated the murders of at least eight rivals, informants, and his own crew has been stabbed to death in prison
Ezequiel ‘Wicked’ Romo ran the Blythe Street gang in Panorama City, northwest Los Angeles, with an iron fist despite being in jail for all but a year of his reign.
Punishment for the smallest infraction, like an unauthorized tattoo, could be a whole magazine of bullets as he sought to purge the gang of ‘dirty homeboys’.
‘All I ask for is complete control of Panorama City,’ he wrote in a WhatsApp message from prison to one of his henchmen in 2017.
Romo, 47, won’t be ordering any more hits from jail after he was stabbed to death by three inmates at Centinela State Prison about 8pm on Sunday.
Romo had made some new friends in jail, associates of the Mexican Mafia, which essentially ran the California jail system.
His plan was to prove he was worthy of the syndicate’s membership by transforming the Blythe Street gang into a feared crew.
He knew he needed to run a very tight ship and set about getting rid of informants, addicts and dissenters, witnesses told his trial.
‘His thing was making things right for them people. Doing favors for them. Taking care of people in the county [jail],’ one witness told the court, the LA Times reported last year.
‘It sounded good, but a lot of violence came after.’
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