The syndicate once relied on associates on the streets, but court data showed that smuggled phones have given imprisoned leaders greater control over drug deals.
Gabriel "Sleepy" Huerta is an alleged member of the Mexican Mafia's three-man "commission," a governing body that settles internal disputes. But he was charged this month in a more mundane matter: the beating of a Wilmington gang member who lost a gun.
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