Torres was widely known as a moneymaker for the notorious prison gang, which controls multi-million drug, fraud, robbery and extortion rackets throughout the United States, in addition to having a hand in legitimate business. He had business interests in the San Fernando Valley, as well as alleged involvement in large heroin rings inside and outside of prison, authorities say.
In 2019, Torres was the lone Mexican Mafia member to be indicted alongside more than a dozen alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in a major racketeering case. Torres was accused of conspiring with Aryan Brotherhood leaders to distribute heroin, while others in the indictment were accused of murder conspiracies and fatal prison stabbings.
Torres was initially housed in administrative segregation, but served as his own attorney and wrote several handwritten motions demanding to be placed back into general population, court records show. One such motion, filed in December 2020, says that his restrictive housing was affecting his ability to mount an effective defense and that the windowless cell caused him to suffer from claustrophobia.

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