SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Diego Field Office issued the following press release:
SAN DIEGO - Two teenage gang members were sentenced in federal court today to 25 years in prison for attempting to murder a target of the Sinaloa Cartel, and for the collateral death of a fellow gang member who was fatally shot during one of the failed murder attempts.
"California Senate Bill 1391 made state prosecutions of 14- and 15-year-olds a practical impossibility regardless of the seriousness of the crime. Then, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Westside Wilmas recruited accordingly," said U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon, "No. No to the Sinaloa Cartel recruiting juven...