Chapter 5
Los Angeles Barrio. Jose Jorge Zepeda rose from shot-caller to unquestioned leader in the greater Los Angeles Area for Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13. Zepeda’s reign of terror brought an end to the “no chief” structure of most MS-13 cliques. He also terminated paying taxes to La Eme, the Mexican Mafia.
He wore his typical blue tee shirt, LA Dodgers baseball cap and Nike Cortez sneakers. He was sitting next to a twelve-year-old Hispanic girl and handed her a loaded bong. He lit the bong with a gold lighter, and the girl inhaled. Zepeda was fully-tatted up, face, neck, arms, chest. He was wearing a chrome 1911 pistol on his belt and a gold chain-link style necklace with the letters MS dangling from it. Two Truchas entered.
“Blanco es aquí,” the Truchas said.
“Bring his chele a*s
