Four Mexican Mafia-connected gang members from Pomona were found guilty on a slew of charges, including murder and drug trafficking late last week, federal prosecutors announced.
According to evidence presented during the 20-day trial, 68-year-old Michael Lerma, also known as “Pomona Mike” and “Big Mike,” a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang ordered the murder of a federal inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles more than four years ago, prosecutors said in a news release announcing the verdict.
In June 2020, three other inmates, 41-year-old Carlos Gonzalez, 33-year-old Juan Sanchez and 44-year-old Jose Valencia Gonzalez, carried out the fatal hit of the inmate identified only as S.B. in court documents…