A federal appeals court is separately considering an appeal of the conviction. If it did there might not be a trial. Now the Mongols want a new trial and say their former president, David Santillan, was a confidential informant for the ATF. That said, other than dealing with illicit substances, the Mongols MC was also part of a motorcycle stealing gang, and pretty successful at what they did. As Lugo and Noyola plotted their next move, Martinez was having a brief conversation with a lawyer a friend of one of Martinezs sisters who stopped by after hearing the family was in trouble. Friday, July 16, 2021 David Santillan, Mongols National President out in bad Mongols MC TV News Interview Trademark Logo Forfeited (2019) Share Watch on TBM Nation is reporting that lil Dave, the Mongols National President is out in bad. He challenged Richard Aguiar about his training, insinuating that Diamonds death was the result of friendly fire. The agitated rhythm of Martinezs life in jail was punctuated by court dates. **** IMPORTANT**** Check out the totally redesigned app!! It seemed possible that his parents were right. When Martinez took the stand, it was Deputy District Attorney Michael Blake who rose from his chair. Martinez lived in a two bedroom, Spanish style, stucco home with his parents, his sister, Brenda, who has Down syndrome, his wife, Sandra, and their two young children, Alyssa and David Jr. The explosive allegations come after a secretly recorded video. Im sorry. In the fall of 2017 David Martinez fired Edward Esqueda a man he would later call a liar who doesnt deserve to be called an attorney and the court reappointed Brady Sullivan as counsel. The act did little to ease Sandras mind. The case was one of the first that Crime Story covered and at the outset it appeared simple: a coldblooded gang member had killed a cop. The court was packed with police officers who got there early to place reserved signs on the gallery benches for Diamonds family. David Santillan was the president of the Mongols motorcycle club for nearly 13 years, until he was voted out of the club in July of 2021. His legal binders were plain but fastidiously organized and when it came to the media he eschewed the spotlight preferring to focus on his cases. How many times did you announce yourself? Sandra emerged from her room and pulled David Jr. back to her bed. be admitted. They call themselves the Mongols Motorcycle Club - and they're one of the largest Motorcycle Clubs in the world. agent on the case, John Ciccone, sharing inside information about the club in exchange for lighter penalties for various offenses. Sullivans cross examination of Moss was a victory, but Sullivan wasnt slowing down. Nor do I believe that there would be, quite frankly, an acquittal in a second trial., Mr. Santillan, who led the Mongols for nearly 13 years until he was voted out of the club in July of last year, vehemently denied that he had ever betrayed the group. agent. As the Mongols continued to talk, Martinez overheard a familiar voice echoing through the air vent. They shot me!. Sullivan also needed to prove that Martinez had been trying to leave the Mongols, that he was a just guy who liked motorcycles who got in over his head. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It was his bullet that stuck his fathers arm and blew through the officers neck. So she sent the recording along with a text message to two members of the Mongols, explaining that her husband has been working with the government. She explained, In other words, he is a rat.. Most importantly, Esqueda agreed with the family that David didnt shoot Shaun Diamond; the officers death was an accident caused by friendly fire. The Mongols Motorcycle Club was founded in 1969 in Montebello, CA by a brotherhood of Latinx men who had been excluded from the Hells Angels. He feared they were angry because he was distancing himself from the club. Noyla dodged the question Theres no way to tell, he said. There were cracks in their case and he would find them. The path to the location was marked by flags at half mast, barely fluttering in the lukewarm autumn air. And the festivities of Christmas. The recordings also proved that David didnt brag about his actions to the other Mongols at Montebello or during the Perkins Operation. His law office was located near the Martinez home in San Gabriel, he spoke perfect Spanish, and he commanded a room with his charming smile. We came to understand that this trial was part of a much larger story, one that informed how Deputy District Attorneys on behalf of the People of California framed their entire argument. Because I needed evidence to show the military that they had someone having an affair with a married man.. Martinez was exhausted, and distraught but he was clear headed enough to know one thing. The door opened to reveal the barrel of a gun pointed inside the home. In an extraordinary move, Toby Mitchell joined his former club's main rivals last month. Mongols Motorcycle Club was founded in Montebello, California on December 5, 1969. David had testified that he hadnt seen or heard the police and that he feared for his life. At the core of the case was a video of a conversation between Mr. Santillan and his wife that she had passed on to members of the biker club last year, accompanied by a text message in which she told them that her husband had been a confidential government informant. "Lots of brothers have tattoos of the marks on their necks and heads and everywhere," David Santillan, the national president of the club, said. The room was already tense. David Santillan, Assistant News Editor David is a senior at San Diego State where he is majoring in French. A retrial was scheduled to begin in February of 2020, but was continued until fall of 2020 in order to provide the defense with more time to interview potential witnesses. Martinez parents, Guadelupe and Arturo, were called to testify in addition to the medical examiner and Shaun Diamonds partner, Richard Aguiar who was part of the SWAT team operation. He would go out with them and he would smoke meth with them. How could David shoot a man in the back when he was standing in front of him? Their evidence contained several details that fundamentally shaped his understanding of the case. At least when the operations are done right. Arturo Martinez grabbed his arm and screamed, they shot me! Mongols MC Chief Little Dave Santillan Was Not A Snitch 5 months ago Scott Burnstein You are unauthorized to view this page. He and his wife, Annie, were estranged after he had an affair. But Sullivan knew that the jury would judge more than the seconds and the shot. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing . Businesses in downtown Pomona closed shop to pay respect to Shaun Diamond and blue ribbons were tied to every tree and lamppost in his honor. Our research into th e events leading to the raid on David Martinezs home offered us valuable context for what drove the prosecutions strategy in pursuing this case. Martinez saw his father, Arturo, by the door. Jack Garden delivered a strong soliloquy infused with the long history of the Mongols hostility towards law enforcement. Esqueda told the family that the whole situation was a police cover-up and he was certain that they would win in court. They pooled resources and hired private attorney Edward Esqueda. Prosecutors sought to depict David Martinez as the embodiment of the battle between the Mongols Motorcycle Club and the federal government. Continuances and motions pushed the trial further into the distance. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. He cant protect me, he told me, so we have to have an exit strategy, he told me, Mr. Santillan, who sounded drunk and sounded distraught, said to her. The Mongols claimed that Mr. Santillan had an inappropriate working relationship with an A.T.F. Although Sullivan had legal clout, he wasnt one for excessive showmanship. The Mongols claimed in their motion for a new trial that Mr. Santillan had an inappropriate working relationship over the years with the lead A.T.F. apply. If prosecutors had decided to eschew the death penalty, that meant they had doubts. With the help of an assistant he had managed to edit the hours of the Perkins audio tapes and the Montebello jail video tapes into small clips that the judge had found admissible in court. Five and a half years after his arrest, David Martinez continues to wait in jail. It was a logical expansion but wasn't intended as a provocation against the Outlaws, the former Mongols leader says. This was not the score they were looking for. Then he began speaking about the A.T.F. Armed with exculpatory information he found in the Perkins and Montebello tapes, he believed Martinez had a strong case. Hes retiring, hes retiring. I dont find theres sufficient cooperation to merit overturning the conviction, Judge Carter said in a ruling from the bench. All three elements of evidence would be critical during trial as they included exculpatory statements from David Martinez. There he reunited with prosecutor Jack Garden who was now joined by co-counsel Michael Blake a man who had the easy confidence and commanding stature of a politician. Despite the set-backs, Esqueda fumbled onward. But it all felt inconsequential compared to the content on the tapes. Tensions were high after two incidents in which Mongols members were shot at or pushed off their bikes on freeways by other bikers, leaving one member killed, one paralyzed and several others wounded. For three weeks, officers took the stand. That kind of brutal damage was consistent with a shotgun slug. For four hours David watched the SWAT team ransack his familys home. PressReader. Sullivan prompted Moss to admit that after the announcements started he saw a man inside the house walk towards the door. A supervisory special agent with the A.T.F. With no explicit confession from Martinez, Lugo called Officer Leo Noyola, the leading expert in Perkins operations. The current president of the Mongols Motorcycle Club is David Santillan, a man who claims that the organization has changed its code of conduct to exclude drug abusers and criminals. If he couldnt show them Davids mindset before the incident, he would settle for showing them the aftermath. He worried about his kids. You can now listen to full episodes of the podcast right from the app. David Martinez fell to his knees and dropped the shotgun on the carpet. Santillan's wife, Annie Santillan, told ABC7 that she recorded their conversation because the couple had become estranged due to his infidelity. In the prosecutions opening Deputy District Attorney Michael Blake portrayed David as a violent gang member who saw his opportunity and took his shot. Sullivan followed Blakes blunt assessment with a more nuanced version of events. Noyola was meticulous. Keep it up! Martinezs story was consistent: He was worried about his father, concerned about his kids, and he thought the intruders were rival gang members, not police. Lifting Martinezs motorcycle jacket from a cardboard evidence box, Kozlowski testified regarding every patch on the leather garment. In the shadowy halls, he was attacked with a shank and sustained a gash to his arm. With all this responsibility weighing on Sullivans shoulders, he arrived at counsels table for pre-trial motions. Sullivan only needed to prove that the banging on the gate, the barking of dogs and the physical chaos of the scene made it impossible for Martinez to identify the cops. Diamonds airway had no recognizable anatomy, only bloodied carnage. In court testimony and in an earlier interview, Ms. Santillan said she had shared the video and the text with the Mongols in an attempt to destroy her husband but had since regretted it; she said she was not being truthful when she claimed he had been an informant. They held hands and whispered prayers under their breath. As funeral proceedings carried on in Ontario, Sullivan was hard at work on Davids case, sorting through discovery sent from the DAs office. David Martinezs cousins and uncles were forced to wait in the stark court hallway as their loved ones fate hung in the balance. Under Jack Gardens guiding hand, their testimonies reinforced the narrative that the SWAT team followed procedure and announced their presence at the Martinez home. Incensed by Sullivans refusal to accept their narrative, David and the Martinez family turned their back on the public defender. You shot to kill that day. Martinez stood firm. Do inmates sometimes lie because they know theyre being recorded? he asked. Cavazos subsequently plead guilty to charges of racketeering and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. On Thursday, after hearing testimony from more than a dozen witnesses, including from Mr. Santillan himself, over the past several months, Judge David O. Carter of the Federal District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., found that there was no convincing evidence of such a claim and refused to set aside racketeering and conspiracy convictions as well as a penalty of $500,000. And on the night or morning when you saw him in the office he was high on methamphetamine, correct? Sandra responded quietly. That line of questioning was immediately buried in objections from the prosecution. David Santillan currently lives in Temple City, CA; in the past David has also lived in Arcadia CA and South Pasadena CA. Detective Lugo attended the proceedings, paying his respects to the fallen officer. In order to prevent gang wars, the inmates were sometimes placed with members of their own gang. Moss and his partner loaded Diamond into the ambulance and drove off towards Huntington Memorial Hospital, sirens blaring as they left the active crime scene behind them. Sullivan forged ahead in his defense of David Martinez. Theres a new twist in a federal case already marked by murder and mayhem. The evidence and the full force of the state were mounted against him and his lawyer was suspiciously absent, difficult to contact, and abrupt in his correspondence. ATF officials view Santillan's public declarations about the club cleaning house as hollow words; they continue to treat the Mongols as a serious threat. He's accused of being a confidential informant and working with the government during the Mongols' trial after his wife,. As the dead of night gave way to dawn, Detective Ray Lugo arrived on the scene. She added that Davids mistress had been harassing her. It was clear to Sullivan that only one person shot a gun that night: his client, David Martinez. All the evidence had been presented. Now, officials have charged four of the gang members, identified as 49-year-old William Nelper ("Flip"), 27-year-old William Boylston ("JC"), 43-year-old Jason Meyerholz ("Country"), and. Sullivan begged the jury to put themselves in Davids shoes, to imagine what they would do if they thought someone was forcing their way into their home in the middle of the night. The only illicit material found was a small baggie of meth and one stolen firearm. 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The #1 Biker News Website Since 2011-Covering up to minute biker news including Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs & Biker News Worldwide. An easy no. The clock was ticking. Marital privileges did not. Moss described the bloody trauma to Diamonds airway, his words seeped in loss as he made eye contact with every juror. To them, this whole trial was founded on a fabrication by the police. Disappointed by the courts rulings, Sullivan remained resolute, diving head-first into developing his defense. It was supposed to be a warning shot. But experts like Leo Noyola stand by the procedures, claiming they are highly effective. If they saw him as a cold-blooded gang member, then chances of a favorable outcome were slim. The ruling won't keep . On 01/24/2008 ANNIE YUMIKO SANTILLAN filed a Family - Marriage Dissolution/Divorce lawsuit against DAVID SANTILLAN. 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