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American mobster

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez (born July 7, 1962 in Artesia, California) is a former Mexican-Americanprison gang member and major organized crime figure.

His criminal history also includes jailhouse stabbing attacks on other inmates, drug trafficking, extortion, and a sexual assault.^[1][2] He was a high ranking made man in the Mexican Mafia before defecting and becoming a federal witness in 2003.

His life is chronicled by journalist Chris Blatchford in the true crime book The Black Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, and his life in the Mexican Mafia.

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Early years

Enriquez was born to recent immigrants from Mexico and grew up in a middle-class home in Cerritos, California but hung out in Artesia, California. He showed early promise in school, but dropped out of Cerritos High School in the 9th grade.

His father tried to teach him how to run the family business, but Enriquez preferred stealing with his fr