SAN DIEGO — A three-month investigation in southeastern San Diego resulted in charges against five men and a woman who authorities say planned violent crimes, sold drugs and stored guns in a house at the direction of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, officials announced Tuesday.
San Diego police Chief David Nisleit said the house on Wunderlin Avenue in the Encanto neighborhood was used to sell drugs, store guns and plan violent crimes, including kidnappings. San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan called it a house "full of plans to cause murder" and other crimes.
The defendants were arrested last week in San Diego and National City. Three of them — Rafael Castro, 41, Samuel Diaz, 35, and Daniela Wilson, 39 — were charged in San Diego Superior Court with kidnapping for the purposes of extortion. According to a criminal complaint, the kidnapping occurred in early October, but no further details were available.
