Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivera-Carrasquillo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 2, 2019No. 14-1582PPublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Overview
For many years, a vicious gang called "La ONU" committed unspeakably brutal crimes in Puerto Rico, raking in millions of dollars from drug sales and killing anyone (and we mean anyone ) in its way - police officers, defectors, rivals in the "La Rompe ONU" gang, you name it. Law enforcement eventually took La ONU down, however. And a federal grand jury criminally indicted scores of its members, including appellants Astacio-Espino, Lanza-Vázquez, and Rivera-Carrasquillo (their full names and aliases appear in our case caption). A bone-chilling read, the…
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