U.S. District Judge Fred W. Slaughter sentenced a Mexican Mafia associate to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a prison assault that left a man’s throat slashed.
Robert Amezcua, 54, a.k.a. “Flaco,” of Santa Ana, received 120 months for the 2019 attack in an Orange County jail, following a three-day trial.
Prosecutors alleged the charges were in aid of racketeering, specifically, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, in the attack made by a Santa Clarita man and one other at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange…