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El Monte Flores, also known as EMF, is a Mexican-American criminal street gang based in California. It is the largest Hispanic gang in San Gabriel Valley [6] and one of the oldest in Los Angeles County.
Flores Daniel Gang, was an outlaw gang also known as "las Manillas" (the Handcuffs), throughout Southern California during 1856-1857. Californio 's Juan Flores and Pancho Daniel . Contemporary newspaper accounts of las Manillas all reported that the leader of las Manillas was originally Pancho Daniel , but that Juan Flores assumed the ...
Juan Flores (c. 1834 – February 14, 1857) was a 19th-century Californio bandit who, with Pancho Daniel, led an outlaw gang known as "las Manillas" (the Handcuffs) and later as the Flores Daniel Gang, throughout Southern California during 1856-1857. Although regarded by historians as a thief and outlaw, Flores was considered among Mexican ...
The lawsuit described the man as "a known El Monte Flores Gang member" out on federal parole for a 2014 racketeering case. Torres-Siegrist identified the man as Louis Ruiz or "Tall Luis."
Sweep leads to arrests of several alleged members of Quiet Village gang, tied to the deaths of two El Monte police officers and facing federal charges.
In 1854 he, and his two brothers Benjamin and David and their wives, left Texas moving to El Monte in California, where he was admitted to the bar, practicing in Los Angeles. In early 1857, following the killing of Sheriff James R. Barton and two men of his posse, by the Flores Daniel Gang , Coopwood led twenty-six El Monte men, as a division ...
Ten people linked to a Southern California street gang were charged with federal crimes, a year after a member shot and killed two suburban police officers, authorities announced Wednesday.
The gang's primary symbol, which is often used in tattoos by members, is the national symbol of Mexico (eagle and a snake) atop a flaming circle over crossed knives. Street gangs that are aligned with the Mexican Mafia often use the number 13 as a gang identifier, as the letter "M" is the 13th letter of the modern Latin-derived alphabet.