Kelly Deshannon booking photo as used in trial as exhibit for prosecution, provided to Law&Crime by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California (Los Angeles).
Kelly Deshannon was the secretary to the Mexican Mafia’s top imprisoned shot-caller, helping violent gangsters in and out of jail sell drugs, coordinate armed robberies, extortion schemes and shootings, but after a jury found her guilty last year on a multitude of felony charges , a judge in California has finally sentenced her this week.
Deshannon, 42, was sentenced to seven years in prison, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show, after she was convicted in July after prosecutors laid out evidence to a jury of her record under the watchful eye of jailed Mexican mafioso Sefrino “Spooky” Gonzalez, a leader inside of the Michael Lerma Cell in the Mexican Mafia or “La Eme.” The network, according to federal prosecutors, is at least 140 members strong inside of California prisons.
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In a statement from the District Attorney’s office announcing the sentence, prosecutors noted that while Gonzalez held control over a profitable drug trade, he relied on a network of foot soldiers and secretaries like Deshannon to pull off his robberies on the outside to keep cash flowing.