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00:00At approximately 4.05 p.m. on November 30th, 2022, the Fresno Bulldogs stand like gladiators,
00:12ready to take on their biggest rivals. They are ready for war.
00:17Not once did they back down, not once did they alert correctional staff that they couldn't
00:21be on that yard, because that would be viewed as cowardice.
00:24Bulldogs are known for fighting even when out number 10 to 1.
00:28That is like their signature.
00:31Years before this gruesome battle, a war had been brewing between four of the major prison
00:39gangs in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
00:44Initially, all prison gang organization leaders from the Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerrilla
00:49family, Aryan Brotherhood, Nuestra Familia, all being housed in security housing units.
00:54The Shoes, in Pelican Bay State Prison and Corcoran State Prison. They had been on lockdown for
01:0120 years, 30 years in the same exact cell, and they had had enough. So what they did was they
01:08orchestrated a statewide hunger strike amongst all races.
01:13And now from California, prisoners held in isolation for years and sometimes decades are
01:18mounting protests. And torture now!
01:21With the hunger strike, it gained national attention.
01:24Solid attack environment is torture.
01:27The strike has sparked protests throughout California.
01:29The prison gang leaders sat down with the administration of the California Department of Corrections,
01:34and ultimately they agreed on a peace treaty, meaning they were going to seize all interracial
01:40violence. But one gang refuses to participate in the treaty, the Fresno Bulldogs.
01:52It is out of control again, kind of like it was when they first built the security housing units,
01:56the reason for them. So now in California, there's about a murder a week that goes on.
02:00And in 2018, the yards turned into Roman arenas, with rival gang members fighting each other on
02:07the alleged orders of the correctional officers who were watching at a distance.
02:12The fights were encouraged by a policy that put members of rival prison gangs together in the same
02:18yard.
02:22During the year 2022, CDCR realized they had an issue with the Fresno Bulldogs, particularly
02:28housing issues, running out of bed space for other inmates. So one of the master plans they came up with
02:35was to integrate them with rivals, enemies. You see a cane being utilized as a weapon, striking downward
02:44as a Fresno Bulldog lays motionless. That inmate almost got decapitated. Numerous Fresno Bulldogs get
02:52stabbed in the throat, the face area, the head, the back.
02:58And approximately three minutes later, you see correctional staff members throw chemical agents
03:06to disperse the crowd. And then you begin to see some inmates throw the weapons over the wall,
03:13getting rid of the evidence.
03:16Having the experience that I have, I know for a fact that the managers implemented this move
03:21for the Fresno Bulldogs were going to get housed on that yard.
03:24For gangs like the Fresno Bulldogs, who have no allies, these battles are a constant part of
03:29their prison experience.
03:31So they sat there and they took that attempted murder is what it was.
03:35However, the Fresno Bulldogs show time and time again, they are a force to be reckoned with,
03:40adopting the Marine slogan, the few, the proud.
03:50You're not going to find a gang quite as hated by every other gang as the Bulldogs are.
03:56And then you begin to see some inmates throw the weapons over the wall, getting rid of the evidence.
04:03Having the experience that I have, I know for a fact that the managers implemented this move
04:09where the Fresno Bulldogs were going to get housed on that yard.
04:12For gangs like the Fresno Bulldogs, who have no allies,
04:16these battles are a constant part of their prison experience.
04:19So they sat there and they took that attempted murder is what it was.
04:22However, the Fresno Bulldogs show time and time again, they are a force to be reckoned with,
04:29adopting the Marine slogan, the few, the proud.
04:39You're not going to find a gang quite as hated by every other gang as the Bulldogs are.
04:44They're big and powerful because they refuse to acknowledge any rules and follow anybody.
04:54Set against the backdrop of what is called the all-American city are the Fresno Bulldogs.
05:19You'd be surprised how many individuals in Fresno actually know
05:23like the Bulldogs story and they actually respect that.
05:27They're cool with it.
05:31Growing up as a kid in Fresno meant growing up alongside this ferocious gang.
05:35It was more so what you saw than what you heard.
05:38First thing you see is the color red.
05:40And red signifies who the Bulldogs are.
05:44You knew based off that color, mixed with some tattoos,
05:48mixed with clothing and just a general lifestyle, who those individuals were.
05:53I grew up in an area known as Southeast Fresno.
05:59It's pretty much what's called in that area the east side of Fresno.
06:03The east side of Fresno is known to be heavily populated by members of criminal street gangs.
06:09So growing up when the Bulldogs were really being formed and growing significantly,
06:13you were aware that that environment was violent.
06:17You were aware that that environment was very threatening to your safety and the safety of others.
06:21There was a lot of weapons out in the street back in the day.
06:27Fresno is the dividing line between northern and southern California,
06:32making it ripe for gang territory.
06:34When we talk criminal street gangs, we talk about the south being Sureños,
06:43predominantly southern Hispanic gang members,
06:45and you have the Norteños, which is predominantly northern Hispanic gang members.
06:50We have both within the city of Fresno,
06:52but the predominant gang in the entire county of Fresno was the Bulldogs.
06:54In the mid-1960s, the Nuestra Familia prison gang was formed.
07:02As that gang kind of evolved,
07:03it was designed to form a level of protection for Hispanic gang members and inmates
07:08from the northern part of California.
07:10And it was designed to protect themselves from the southern Hispanic criminal street gangs
07:15and southern Hispanic prison gang known as the Mexican Mafia.
07:19As the 70s begin, the Nuestra Familia, also called NF,
07:24gains a following and expands its operation to the streets,
07:28creating a street regiment called F-14.
07:32Fresno was the very first regiment organized by the Nuestra Familia in the early 70s.
07:36And so then we started seeing F-14,
07:40which was F for the Fresno and 14 for the Nuestra Familia.
07:46F-14 continued to grow in numbers.
07:49There was a lot of activity in the California prison system,
07:52and that's where a lot of recruitment happened as well.
07:55Even though they are still considered NF and paying taxes to the Mexican Mafia,
08:00the NF regiment takes off and starts taking on their own structure.
08:04And you started to see members of F-14 being a lot more influential and active
08:10in comparison to other cities and other Nuestra Familia and northerner gangs
08:14within the northern part of California.
08:18Though their rise in influence turns out to be the beginning of the end for the F-14ers.
08:23There were several individuals who refused to tax pimps, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc.
08:32and this is taken as what they call acts of treason.
08:36Fresno becomes a problem NF can't control.
08:40To send a message, NF goes on the attack.
08:46During the late 1970s, there was about three dozen murders or so
08:51that the Nuestra Familia committed against Fresno residents.
08:55NF is ruthless in sending a message to their guys in Fresno.
09:06Either fall in line or die.
09:09This upset a lot of the guys from Fresno.
09:12So they decided, you know what, we're not going to put up with it anymore.
09:15And so they rebelled and they basically created their own gang.
09:20The larger part of that separation occurred in San Quentin State Prison
09:31in that time frame, the mid-80s.
09:34Fed up with the bloodshed and seeing their F-14 brothers treated badly,
09:39the Fresno members of NF band together in prison
09:42and create a council that eventually becomes the Fresno Bulldogs.
09:46That council, there, was instrumental because essentially they led that separation
09:50and the council didn't necessarily want to be called that
09:54just because it kind of aligned with that form of structure
09:57that the NF was still pushing.
09:59It's because of what the homeboys did in the late 80s and the early 90s,
10:03trying to break off from another form of oppression,
10:07giving other generations of homeboys in a city
10:11the size of Fresno freedom.
10:15A lot of individuals that are accredited for starting the Bulldogs,
10:21you had the Vindiolas, Crackers Vindiola.
10:26You also had his brother Roy, Spooky Vindiola.
10:29You had the Venegas brothers.
10:33So you're talking about multiple brothers
10:35that were affiliated with the Nuest Familia
10:38that no longer want to be a part of that.
10:41To distance themselves, they come up with a new logo
10:44to represent their home,
10:45incorporating the Fresno State University's Bulldog mascot
10:48into their iconography.
10:51They kept the color red
10:52because they adopted the Fresno State University,
10:55the Bulldogs emblem,
10:57and they chose the Bulldogs as their mascot.
11:00They really wanted to establish that independence from anybody
11:04and kind of make it a situation as they quoted every dog for himself.
11:09While this newly formed group brings freedom for them,
11:11it also becomes the Fresno Bulldogs versus everyone.
11:15If your homeboy got in trouble and he getting locked up,
11:21you got to get in trouble too
11:22because we're too outnumbered
11:24and we're going to lose this thing that they're trying to do.
11:28The expansion of the Bulldogs from prison to prison
11:31is labeled by some as the Red Wave,
11:33the same name of the Fresno State University football team cheer section.
11:37The Red Wave is something that is used to refer to
11:40the violence that happened
11:43after the Bulldogs were formed at San Quentin, 84, 85.
11:48This Red Wave resulted in a significant amount
11:52of criminal street gang members on the streets of Fresno
11:54becoming Fresno Bulldog gang members,
11:57which in the early part of the 80s were non-existent.
12:00By the end of the 80s,
12:01you had hundreds if not thousands of them by that time.
12:04Back when they started writing the Fresno Bulldog Constitution,
12:10they made it very clear that there's going to be no leaders,
12:15there's going to be no generals,
12:16there's going to be nobody in charge,
12:19which makes them disorganized at times,
12:21but it also makes them hard to infiltrate
12:24and identify and prosecute.
12:26Unlike a traditional gang,
12:28the Fresno Bulldogs don't abide by any structure,
12:31just Bulldogs over anyone.
12:33I've seen gang members with the words
12:36structure on their person
12:38because they're so against it.
12:40In the early 90s,
12:42the Bulldogs show how their chaotic,
12:44violent mentality can be fatal.
12:48On July 31st, 1991,
12:51two women, Dorothy Medina and Arlene Sanchez,
12:55head to a Fresno Bulldog party.
12:57Both females were attending a party,
13:02location within the county of Fresno,
13:04just west of the city of Fresno.
13:06The gathering is organized to be a drive-by shootout
13:09with members of another gang.
13:11But as they waited,
13:13the Bulldogs began to party.
13:14During the course of this party,
13:21Dorothy Medina was taken into a trailer and raped.
13:27After the assault,
13:28the Bulldogs know the women might snitch.
13:31They've seen their faces.
13:32The individuals who were involved
13:38eventually felt as though that
13:41these two females,
13:43Dorothy Medina and Arlene Sanchez,
13:44were not going to keep their mouths shut
13:46about what had occurred.
13:48Two Bulldog members come up with a plan
13:50to make sure the women take the assault to the grave.
13:53The idea was eventually conceived to,
13:56quote-unquote,
13:56get rid of them.
13:56With no hierarchy,
13:59the Bulldog members don't need to get permission
14:01for the gruesome plan.
14:03And there's no one to warn of the consequences.
14:06Both females were taken into a area
14:10of the county of Fresno
14:11where they were both brutally murdered,
14:15execution style.
14:18And were discovered later that morning
14:21on August 1st by field workers in the area
14:23who had alerted law enforcement
14:25to what they had discovered.
14:27This slang was called
14:28the Bulldog slang at that time.
14:30And it drew a lot of media attention
14:32and therefore a lot of attention
14:33to the Bulldog gang as a whole.
14:35At that time,
14:36law enforcement really realized
14:37there was a significant problem
14:39that needed to be addressed.
14:40And that problem was the Bulldog gang.
14:42In developing news tonight,
14:44shootings and crime
14:45are on the rise in Fresno.
14:47Three people were shot
14:48in southwest Fresno.
14:49The 21-year-old Bulldog gang member
14:51facing two counts
14:52of attempted murder of a peace officer.
14:54We're not going to accept
14:55nor tolerate this type of violence
14:57in our city.
14:58And we're going to go after them
14:59with everything we've got.
15:02After their separation
15:10from the Nuestra Familia,
15:11the Fresno Bulldogs are on their own
15:13with law enforcement and other gangs.
15:16Fresno's in the 90s was a war zone.
15:18With the newly minted Fresno Bulldogs
15:22taking over the area,
15:24there are still many battles to fight.
15:28The murder rate was pretty high
15:30for the city its size.
15:32We were like top two,
15:34top three in those years.
15:35What kind of a gun was it carrying?
15:37How old was it?
15:37And people were getting sound
15:38almost like damn near every night.
15:39During the 90s,
15:48you had Westside.
15:50You know,
15:50Westside had a lot of different sets.
15:53There were Crip sets.
15:54There was a Blood set out there.
15:56And then like as far as the Eastside,
15:58you had the Asian gangs,
15:59you got Bulldogs.
16:00And then you had maybe,
16:02maybe a couple of the little straggler
16:03neighborhood gangs
16:04that weren't necessarily
16:06all the way Bulldog yet.
16:07We was just all funking with each other
16:10because people's monies
16:11were getting crossed up.
16:13And then, you know,
16:14people was fighting each other.
16:16Before you know it,
16:17you got to watch where you walk in.
16:19You saw a lot of violence.
16:21You saw bloodshed.
16:22You saw hate.
16:26And you didn't understand
16:27how you could be labeled
16:28as an all-American title
16:30with that going on around you.
16:33And with them showing their dominance,
16:35the Bulldogs become enemy number one
16:37in Fresno.
16:39We were chopping it up,
16:41getting ready to go,
16:42you know,
16:43go out,
16:43go hang out,
16:45talking on the phone
16:46with some females
16:47and go meet up.
16:50Growing up in the neighborhood,
16:51you know,
16:51it's like a war zone.
16:52So, you know,
16:52you get these instincts
16:54on what to do
16:55when things happen.
16:56As Dee and his friend
16:57are picking up bottles
16:58at the liquor store,
17:00he gets a feeling
17:01something is about to go down.
17:02When you hear
17:16something go by your ear
17:18and it sounds like
17:18that means run
17:20because that's a bullet.
17:22So when I heard it,
17:23all I knew was,
17:24you know,
17:24I got to get cover.
17:26First thing I'm doing,
17:28checking my clothes.
17:29You know,
17:30did I get hit?
17:31Am I red?
17:31I'm not,
17:32I'm good.
17:33But, you know,
17:34the situation wasn't done.
17:36They hit one of the homies
17:38and he was in the store
17:39all that time,
17:40bleeding.
17:44It ain't no,
17:45it ain't no thing
17:46to just get back
17:46and say,
17:47hey,
17:47you still on there?
17:49When's the party tonight?
17:51Even though the Bulldogs
17:52know they are targets,
17:53they have no problem
17:54letting people know
17:55who they are.
17:57You just don't accuse
17:58anybody of being
17:59a gang member.
18:00You know,
18:00use tattoos.
18:02Crimes,
18:03drawings,
18:04self-admission.
18:05We don't give a
18:06college season.
18:07The police.
18:08Fresno.
18:10A lot of the Fresno
18:11Bulldog gang members
18:12will have the paw tattoos,
18:14the paw print,
18:16Fresno Bulldog.
18:16The word Fresno
18:22written across their chest,
18:24their face,
18:25the back of the head,
18:25the neck,
18:26just to let other gangs
18:27know this is where I'm from.
18:29The most prominent one
18:32that you'll see
18:32on Bulldogs
18:33who are very active
18:34members of the gang
18:35is a dog collar
18:36which runs around
18:37the back
18:38and front of their neck.
18:39Just like in the streets,
18:45in the pen,
18:45they have influential Bulldogs
18:47that lead certain missions.
18:49The Bulldogs were
18:51a very different group.
18:54They were so unpredictable.
18:56It was kind of hard
18:57to figure out
18:57who was the leader
18:59that day,
19:00who was the leader
19:01that week,
19:01that month.
19:02They changed all the time.
19:03In an attempt
19:10to separate
19:10the Fresno Bulldogs
19:11from the Nuestra Familia,
19:13they start transferring them
19:15to the New Folsom Prison
19:16in Repressa, California.
19:18Then what happened was
19:19it spread from San Quentin
19:20to places like New Folsom
19:22where I worked
19:24and any institution
19:25where the Bulldogs were
19:27that this was the thing.
19:29This is where you heard
19:30the barking going on.
19:32It just became
19:32a big phenomenon.
19:33Fresno Bulldogs!
19:34That's a bulldog!
19:35That's a bulldog!
19:36That's a bulldog!
19:37That's a bulldog!
19:38The Fresno Bulldogs
19:39barked to let other individuals
19:41know who they are
19:42and where they're from
19:43and what they're about.
19:45It showed power.
19:47It was intimidating.
19:49Like if you ran
19:49into a pack of dogs,
19:50you don't want to mess with them.
19:52New Folsom
19:53is an opportunity
19:54to take over a prison yard
19:55and be the reckoning force.
19:57They felt that they could
19:58hold their own
19:59on any prison yard
20:00and so as they went to prison,
20:02they distinguished themselves
20:04as having no allies,
20:07fearing no prison gang
20:09and starting riots
20:11and attacking people
20:13on both sides of this war.
20:15The Bulldogs
20:16pretty much ran that yard
20:18towards the end
20:18of 92-93 control.
20:21And what I mean control is
20:22the Bulldogs
20:23had so much control
20:24they named the facility newsletter
20:26the Bulldog Edition.
20:28While they take control
20:31of New Folsom,
20:32this is not the norm
20:34for the Bulldogs.
20:36When they go into
20:37the correctional setting,
20:38they are outnumbered,
20:39but they take great pride
20:41in that
20:42and their numbers
20:43are strong enough
20:44or significant enough
20:45to allow for protection
20:47of themselves.
20:48You have thousands
20:50of Surreño-aligned
20:52gang members
20:52in the prison system.
20:54You have thousands
20:55of Norteño-aligned
20:56gang members
20:57within the prison system.
20:58You have mere hundreds
20:59of Bulldogs
21:00within the prison system.
21:02But their mentality is
21:03we'll fight anybody,
21:04anytime, anywhere.
21:06It doesn't matter
21:06what the numbers are.
21:07Sometimes they're outnumbered
21:08three or four to one
21:10and they'll still
21:10face that challenge.
21:13The Bulldogs
21:14may be outnumbered,
21:15but they remain
21:16enemy number one.
21:18Due to them
21:18not following
21:20a certain chain of command
21:21and or leadership structure,
21:23they tend to get into it
21:25with all the other
21:25gang factions.
21:27And I mean
21:27all the other gang factions.
21:31Since forming,
21:32the Bulldogs
21:32have been a thorn
21:33in the California
21:34Department of Corrections
21:35and Rehabilitation,
21:37a.k.a. CDCR.
21:40I didn't interact
21:41with a Fresno Bulldog
21:43until I hit
21:44Charlie R. Donovan.
21:46And I said,
21:47hey, man,
21:47what is it with you guys?
21:48I'm like,
21:48why do I hear
21:49that you guys
21:49are all disrespectful
21:50and running amok?
21:52And he's like,
21:53nah, dude,
21:53it's not that.
21:54We just don't want
21:54to follow the rules
21:55of any other man.
21:57You know,
21:58we're independent.
22:00After decades
22:01of filtering
22:02in and out of prison,
22:03the Bulldogs
22:04form their own way
22:05of working the system.
22:07We were looking
22:08at all the California
22:09prison gangs
22:10where the Fresno
22:11Bulldogs fall into that
22:12is kind of their own lane.
22:15The Bulldogs
22:16will vote
22:16who's in charge
22:18literally every day.
22:20That can change
22:20day to day,
22:22week to week.
22:23It depends a lot
22:24about who's on the yard,
22:26who is representing Bulldogs,
22:28who is in favor,
22:30and who is falling
22:31out of favor.
22:32Even though
22:33they hated organization,
22:35they keep a running list
22:36of their crew
22:37and their enemies.
22:39What stood out to me
22:40is how well
22:42they documented
22:43their own members
22:45and enemies.
22:46So they would have
22:47really three lists.
22:49They'd have a list
22:50of Mitzka Mafia,
22:51they'd have a list
22:52of Nuestra Familia,
22:54and then they would have
22:55another list
22:56with the Bulldogs
22:57on them.
23:00Using the list,
23:01they figure out
23:01who on the yard
23:02is their next victim.
23:04So when the Fresno
23:05Bulldogs
23:06get what they call
23:07their own yard,
23:08for instance,
23:08a sea facility
23:09in New Folsom,
23:10they will get along
23:13for a while.
23:15Things seem pretty calm,
23:17but these guys
23:18are never satisfied
23:19with enough.
23:20They always want more.
23:22They want more drugs,
23:23or they want to
23:24produce more weapons.
23:26You're going to be
23:27hard-pressed to find
23:28a group of Bulldog gang members
23:30who aren't armed,
23:31and they need that
23:32for protection,
23:33not only for themselves
23:33personally,
23:34but should they be
23:35assaulted by rival
23:36gang members
23:36in that setting.
23:40While making weapons
23:41in prison isn't uncommon,
23:43the Bulldogs
23:44are particularly skilled
23:45in the art
23:46of bodily damage.
23:47There's actually
23:48a tactic
23:49on how to assault
23:51somebody with a weapon,
23:52and it's a knife culture.
23:57Yeah, the inmates
23:58from the Fresno Bulldogs
23:59have been known
24:00to check out
24:01from the library
24:02Gray's Anatomy book
24:03so they can understand
24:05and study
24:06the most lethal places
24:07to stab somebody
24:09to result with death.
24:11With their expert level
24:13of weaponry
24:14and lack of rules,
24:15the Bulldog equation
24:16is a deadly one.
24:19Knowing the Bulldogs
24:20like I do,
24:22these guys will find
24:23somebody to prey on.
24:24I've heard one convict
24:27say it's like
24:28being in a tank
24:29of piranhas.
24:30You know,
24:30if there's nobody
24:31to eat,
24:32they'll eat each other.
24:33Jesse Aguilar
24:34is a killer.
24:36Investigators say
24:36Aguilar ordered
24:37retribution
24:38against a gang member
24:39who killed one
24:39of their own
24:40without his permission.
24:41While the Bulldogs
24:49lack structure,
24:50they've split
24:51into subsets
24:52across the Fresno area,
24:54each claiming
24:54its own territory.
24:57So from the top down,
24:58you have
24:59the Fresno Bulldog gang.
25:01Just beneath that,
25:02you have various
25:03sets and subsets,
25:04which are essentially
25:05what gang members
25:07will call
25:08their hoods.
25:10The six major sets
25:11of the Bulldogs
25:11are the Cal Guevara
25:12Locos Bulldogs,
25:14the Parkside Bulldogs,
25:16the Westside Bulldogs,
25:17the Northside Bulldogs,
25:19the Eastside Bulldogs,
25:20and the County Dogs.
25:24Just because
25:24they're subsets
25:25of the same gang
25:26doesn't mean
25:27there's love
25:28between each one.
25:30Senior members
25:31from these sets
25:31call out hits
25:32with the same weight
25:33as another gang
25:34shot caller would.
25:35What you'll see
25:36is individuals
25:37who are highly influential,
25:39what they call
25:40the big homies.
25:41And those individuals
25:42have the influence
25:43on their peers
25:45and especially
25:46the younger generation
25:47of gang members.
25:48And that influence
25:49can result in acts
25:50being carried out
25:51on their behalf,
25:52whether those individuals
25:53are in the custody setting
25:54or on the streets.
25:57Day 18 of an operation
25:59targeting Bulldog gang members.
26:01Why are you running
26:01from the cops, man?
26:02There's no police
26:03arrested a Cal-Watt
26:04Bulldog gang member.
26:05Police officer
26:06is targeted by a gunman.
26:07The second officer
26:08involved shooting
26:09in one day.
26:10All of these people
26:11are believed to be
26:12Bulldog gang members.
26:19One of the big homies
26:20from the Calo Avario
26:21Locos subset
26:22of the Fresno Bulldogs
26:24is known by
26:25multiple monikers.
26:26Paya, Piasso,
26:28and Joe Jimenez.
26:30His real name being
26:31Jesse Aguilar.
26:32Jesse Aguilar
26:35is well-known
26:37as being a troublemaker.
26:40He is what some people
26:42consider to be
26:43a shot caller
26:43or a very dangerous individual.
26:45Aguilar's savage instincts
26:47are the embodiment
26:47of the Bulldogs.
26:49He's very proud
26:50to be a member
26:50of the Bulldogs.
26:52I would describe
26:53as somebody
26:54who was a master manipulator.
26:59Throughout the 90s
27:00and early 2000s,
27:01he became the equivalent
27:02of a shot caller
27:03for the Calo Avario
27:05Locos subset.
27:06Even though
27:07he would be considered
27:08from the law enforcement
27:09perspective
27:10as a leader
27:10of that gang,
27:11his influence
27:12spans beyond just CBL.
27:14He's involved
27:15with criminal activities
27:18with other various
27:19sets and subsets
27:20of the Bulldog gang.
27:21August 2013.
27:27Aguilar's close homie
27:28and namesake
27:29Angel Vasquez,
27:30a.k.a.
27:31Lil Paya
27:31of the Calo Avario Locos
27:33is shot dead
27:34outside an apartment complex.
27:37Jesse is devastated
27:38and word is
27:40the Bond Street Bulldogs
27:42did it.
27:43As a senior member
27:44of his set,
27:45he must find a way
27:46to exact retribution.
27:48After an all-night
27:55New Year's party
27:56at a Bulldog's crib,
27:57Aguilar finds out
27:59that Lil Paya's
28:00alleged killer
28:00is heading there
28:01for a drug deal
28:02that morning.
28:06Frank Zapata Jr.
28:07rolls up to the crib
28:08with his father,
28:10Frank Zapata Sr.
28:12Aguilar is in the apartment
28:13with a semi-automatic
28:15cocked.
28:16Instead of a drug deal,
28:18Zapata Sr.
28:19receives a rain of bullets.
28:27As Frank Zapata Jr.
28:29takes cover,
28:31Aguilar runs to a van.
28:34In text messages
28:35found on Aguilar's phone
28:37at the crime scene,
28:38he sends a photo
28:39holding the murder weapon,
28:40a silver semi-automatic handgun,
28:43and messages his homies
28:44he's standing strong
28:45on his turf.
28:46That resulted in
28:49the search
28:50for Jesse Aguilar.
28:56Before landing
28:58in the slammer,
28:59Aguilar is arrested
28:59for murdering
29:00Frank Zapata Sr.
29:02after a standoff
29:02with a police SWAT team
29:03at the Summerfield Inn.
29:05During Aguilar's trial,
29:09witnesses are allegedly
29:10reluctant to testify
29:11against him
29:11due to his power
29:13within the Fresno Bulldog Gang.
29:15Even Zapata Jr.
29:16didn't show up.
29:17You didn't have to be
29:18a gang member
29:19to know who he was
29:19and what his influence was.
29:21He is sentenced
29:26to 25 years to life,
29:27but even behind bars,
29:29Aguilar's behavior
29:30didn't stop.
29:34He was involved
29:35in additional acts
29:37of violence
29:37against staff members
29:38within the county jail
29:40where an officer
29:42was assaulted
29:42by Mr. Aguilar.
29:46Behind bars,
29:47Aguilar shows
29:48you can't put
29:49a bulldog down.
29:51How many life sentences
29:52is he on?
29:54I think I've lost count
29:55at this time.
29:58Jesse Aguilar's
29:59facing at least
30:00three life sentences
30:02that I'm aware of.
30:04Aguilar makes a sport
30:05out of getting life terms.
30:07He himself
30:09explained
30:10the relationship
30:11between law enforcement
30:13and the bulldogs
30:14as a cat and mouse game.
30:16Sometimes the mouse
30:17gets caught.
30:17A lot of times
30:18it doesn't.
30:21On the outside,
30:23his bulldog set
30:24is continuing
30:25to make headlines.
30:26The Fresno Police Department
30:28responding
30:28to a deadly officer
30:30involved shooting.
30:31Most notably
30:32in April 2017,
30:34Isaiah Marietta Golding,
30:36a member of the
30:36Calo Avario Loco
30:38street set
30:38of the bulldogs,
30:40starts a police chase
30:41after shaking their tail
30:42earlier in the day.
30:44And when they tried
30:45to arrest him,
30:46he ran.
30:46And the cops
30:49shot him behind the head.
30:53The only thing was
30:54they had the body camera
30:55on and heard
30:56the police
30:57making fun
30:57of the shooting.
31:00After seeing
31:01the footage,
31:02Isaiah's mother,
31:03Christina Lopez,
31:04also a member
31:05of the Caloa
31:06street bulldogs,
31:07files a lawsuit
31:08against the city.
31:09The city of Fresno
31:10has reached
31:11a $4.9 million
31:13settlement
31:13with the family
31:14of an unarmed teenager
31:16shot in the head.
31:17She won a settlement,
31:18millions of dollars,
31:20a lawsuit that she filed
31:21against Fresno PD
31:22when they killed
31:23her 16-year-old son.
31:24Her 16-year-old son
31:25was involved in crime,
31:27was a Fresno
31:27bulldog gang member.
31:28I hate to say it
31:31and use the word
31:31dysfunctional families,
31:32but it is true
31:34sometimes
31:35that there are
31:36certain families
31:37that have been
31:38affiliated with
31:38the bulldogs
31:39for ages.
31:41Her son's association
31:42with that street gang
31:43is similar to her
31:44being associated
31:45to that street gang.
31:47Years later,
31:48Lopez's name
31:49in this case
31:50come up again,
31:51connecting dots
31:52to an old associate
31:53of hers,
31:54Jesse Aguilar.
31:55A Fresno County
31:57murder suspect
31:58is in jail tonight,
31:59along with 13 other people
32:00tied to the same investigation.
32:02In 2021,
32:04there was a murder
32:05which occurred
32:05in the community
32:06of Malaga
32:06where an individual
32:08was murdered
32:09by individuals
32:10who we identified
32:11as being related
32:13to the Calavaria Locos
32:14or CVO set.
32:1718-year-old
32:17Richard Aguilar
32:18is accused
32:18of shooting
32:19and killing
32:19Javier Fernandez
32:21on July 9th
32:22near the victim's
32:23home in Malaga.
32:24Detectives say
32:25Aguilar
32:25is an active
32:26Calawa gang member.
32:27This murder
32:28sets off alarms
32:29for law enforcement
32:30to finally crack down
32:31on the Calawa
32:32Vario Locos
32:33Bulldog Street set.
32:35The Fresno County
32:35Sheriff's Office,
32:36Fresno Police Department
32:37and Multi-agency
32:38Gang Enforcement
32:39Consortium
32:39initiated an investigation
32:41into the CVO
32:44Bulldog
32:45criminal street gang.
32:48Police are also able
32:49to tap
32:49Jesse Aguilar's phone
32:51in prison
32:51due to his close ties
32:53with his set
32:54on the outside.
32:55Sure enough,
32:56the mouse gets caught.
32:58Law enforcement
32:59listens in
32:59while Aguilar,
33:01using contacts
33:01on the outside
33:02and an illegal
33:03cell phone,
33:04plans a murder
33:05of a rival
33:06from his prison walls.
33:08Jesse Aguilar
33:09essentially orchestrated
33:10a murder
33:10to take place
33:11at a community park
33:12called Calawa Park
33:13in the southeast area
33:14of the city of Fresno.
33:17Aguilar contacts
33:18to fellow Calawa Street
33:20Bulldog,
33:21Juan Alfredo Venegas,
33:23as well as orders
33:24Venegas to recruit
33:25a 14-year-old gang member
33:26to help carry out the hit
33:28and supply the guns.
33:33Fortunately,
33:35detectives and personnel
33:36with MAGIC,
33:37Fresno County Sheriff's Office,
33:38Fresno Police Department,
33:39were able to prevent
33:40that homicide
33:40from occurring,
33:42arrest the individual
33:42who had been sent
33:43to commit the homicide
33:44and subsequently
33:46convict Jesse Aguilar
33:48and the individual
33:49who he had sent
33:50to go commit the murder.
33:52Aguilar and Venegas
33:53are charged
33:54with conspiracy
33:54to commit murder.
33:56When Venegas
33:57and Aguilar charged,
33:58there was one more
33:59loose end to tie
34:00where the murder weapon
34:02came from.
34:03Here I have
34:03a lengthy list of arrests.
34:05One of the more notable,
34:06Christina Lopez.
34:08After receiving
34:08the settlement
34:09from the incident
34:10with her son,
34:11law enforcement
34:12links Lopez
34:12to using money
34:13to buy and distribute guns
34:15to Fresno Bulldog miners,
34:17some as young
34:18as 13 years old.
34:20Allegedly,
34:21one of those guns
34:22ends up in the hands
34:23of the contacts
34:23Aguilar calls
34:24to carry out
34:25the Calloway Park murder.
34:27From my understanding,
34:29Jesse Aguilar
34:30and Christina Lopez,
34:32they were familiar.
34:33They were gang associates.
34:34Lived in the same neighborhood,
34:36belonged to the same street gang.
34:38With these close ties,
34:40it's all in the family
34:41when it comes
34:41to the Bulldog Kalawavario
34:43Loco street gang.
34:45Jesse's relationship
34:46with his set
34:47on the outside
34:48is a deadly one.
34:53With upwards
34:54of 6,000
34:55active Bulldog members,
34:57the city of Fresno
34:58becomes their playground.
35:00I always like
35:01to tell people,
35:01I understood
35:02at a very young age
35:03what side of the street
35:04I could go on,
35:05what neighborhood
35:07I was safe walking through
35:08and what neighborhood
35:09I wasn't safe walking through,
35:10what colors I could
35:11and couldn't wear.
35:12You can wear red,
35:13you can't wear blue.
35:14You never really understand
35:15why,
35:16you just know you can't
35:17because blue's the enemy.
35:18Not of you,
35:19but of your neighborhood
35:19and the people
35:20that live there.
35:21With such a heavy influence
35:23in the community,
35:24the Bulldogs
35:25become something
35:26to aspire to.
35:27You know,
35:28you can hear all the
35:28stories that are going on
35:31and you're a youngster,
35:32you get turned on to that.
35:33You just want to hang out.
35:34You know,
35:34you want to feel
35:35a part of something.
35:39When it comes
35:40to the Fresno Bulldogs,
35:41they can recruit
35:42young us
35:42to 8 or 9 years old.
35:44If you're capable
35:45of picking up a gun
35:46and utilizing a weapon,
35:47you can get involved
35:48in the Fresno street gang.
35:50Youngsters who
35:50don't have
35:51the best support at home
35:52and they know
35:53that if they identify
35:54as members of that gang
35:56that they now have peers,
35:58they now have friends,
35:58they now have protection
36:00and a lot of times
36:01they're looking for
36:02all of that in one.
36:03Since the beginning,
36:05the mission of the Bulldogs
36:06is to create
36:07their own community
36:08and protection
36:09for their people
36:10in Fresno.
36:10My boy got me in.
36:12You know,
36:13I was just hanging out
36:13with him
36:14because I didn't
36:14want to go home.
36:15When it comes
36:16to initiations
36:17into the Bulldogs,
36:18no one is too young
36:19to go through the beating.
36:21Bulldog gang members
36:22involving very young
36:23individuals.
36:24Individuals who
36:25range in age from 12
36:27all the way
36:27to 18 years old.
36:29When they tapped me in,
36:30maybe it was because,
36:31you know,
36:31I was getting on the nerves.
36:32I don't know,
36:33you know.
36:34I wouldn't change it
36:35for anything,
36:36you know,
36:36because they wasn't
36:37out to hurt you.
36:38Because trust me,
36:38you get jumped
36:39by three, four guys,
36:40they want to hurt you,
36:40they can hurt you.
36:42It's love.
36:43It really is love.
36:44You know what I mean?
36:44It's a very
36:45anti-social type love,
36:47but hey,
36:47it ain't no different
36:48than football.
36:49In true Bulldog fashion,
36:52they have their own rules
36:54when it comes to initiations.
36:56It has a symbolic meaning
36:57for the Bulldogs.
36:58The common set period
36:59of time is 24 seconds.
37:01The letter two
37:02representing
37:03the second letter
37:04of the alphabet,
37:04the letter B.
37:05For Bull,
37:06the letter four
37:07representing the fourth
37:08letter of the alphabet
37:09for the letter D,
37:10for Doc.
37:10The number of seconds
37:12is also symbolic
37:13for being longer
37:14than their rivals.
37:15The Norteños
37:16and...
37:16...who commonly assault
37:17an individual
37:18upon initiation
37:19for 14 seconds.
37:20So the Bulldogs
37:21will take pride
37:21for essentially
37:22almost doubling
37:23the amount of time
37:23that they'll assault
37:24one of their own members
37:25through initiation.
37:28If it were up
37:29to some of the OGs,
37:31yeah,
37:31it would have been
37:31like Navy SEALs
37:32to get in.
37:33Not anybody
37:34could just get in.
37:35They wanted you
37:35to make sure
37:36you could fight,
37:37you could take on
37:38two, three people.
37:39It gives you
37:40some type of stature
37:41within your community
37:42that is unrivaled
37:43by most others.
37:45There's something
37:46that's very attractive
37:47to being feared
37:47and respected
37:49at the same time.
37:50By teaching these kids
37:51to fight young,
37:53the propensity
37:53for violence
37:54is deadly.
37:55A 16-year-old
37:56is under arrest,
37:57accused of shooting
37:58and killing
37:58a 22-year-old
37:59at the victim's
38:00own birthday party.
38:02Five Bulldog gang members
38:03walked into the party
38:04and started barking.
38:05You see seven shootings,
38:07including one homicide,
38:08happened all in the span
38:10of 30 hours.
38:11You see 12,
38:1313, 14,
38:1315-year-olds
38:14pulling triggers
38:15without hesitance.
38:16You realize
38:17there's something lacking
38:18and it's not so much
38:19the fault of the good people
38:21that live in that community
38:22but sometimes
38:23just the lack
38:24of opportunity.
38:27The Fresno Bulldogs
38:28use their influence
38:29in the streets
38:30to give opportunities
38:31to this younger generation.
38:33During the summer months
38:34when in the city of Fresno,
38:35the county of Fresno,
38:36a lot of people
38:37are out and about.
38:38The kids are on the street,
38:39they're playing,
38:40but oftentimes
38:41it's a good opportunity
38:43for criminal street gangs
38:44to go and recruit them
38:45and bring them
38:46into the gang.
38:50To combat
38:51these rising young Bulldogs,
38:52law enforcement
38:53takes to the streets
38:54to fight gang recruitment.
38:56We wanted to create
38:59an event
38:59at the same exact spot
39:01where Jesse Aguilar
39:02had orchestrated
39:03a murder to take place.
39:04We were able to seek out
39:06student-athletes
39:07from Fresno State
39:08who were well-known
39:09football players
39:09and individuals
39:11that these young children
39:12who are easily influenced
39:14would see on a day-to-day
39:15or a week-to-week basis
39:16on the TV
39:18playing football.
39:19With the
39:20Meet the Real Bulldog event,
39:21law enforcement shows
39:23there's another Bulldog
39:24to look up to.
39:28What was your dad
39:29telling you about the streets
39:30and about what life
39:31was going to be like
39:32for you and whatnot?
39:32Well, see,
39:33that's the thing.
39:33It wasn't really
39:34like nothing to tell me.
39:35We was born in this life.
39:36But even with
39:37these targeted efforts,
39:38the youth
39:38keeps on banging.
39:40My mom would Bulldog.
39:41My dad would Bulldog.
39:42My uncle would Bulldog.
39:43You know,
39:43you got to option shit.
39:44Don't do this street shit
39:45because it ain't what you think
39:46and it ain't sweet,
39:47bro.
39:52Since making their name
39:54known in the 1980s,
39:55the Bulldogs claw their way
39:57to the top of the food chain.
39:59In my personal opinion,
40:01as long as Fresno
40:02still exists,
40:03there will always be
40:04Fresno Bulldogs
40:05and now they're expanding
40:06rapidly,
40:07taking over all
40:07of Fresno County as well.
40:09Law enforcement
40:10in that area
40:12of Central California
40:13considers them
40:14number one target
40:15trying to control
40:16that group
40:17because it is expanding
40:19within the system
40:20and on the street.
40:22They got guns
40:23but they don't use them.
40:25I got a restraining order
40:26put on me
40:27by straps.
40:27Rise that I abuse them.
40:29Particular and selective
40:31when I choose them.
40:32First name's Lick,
40:33last name's Black.
40:34That f***a
40:35ain't gonna never come back.
40:37To stay at the top
40:38of Fresno,
40:38they must stick together.
40:40But with a younger generation
40:42coming in,
40:43a divide may be coming.
40:45With Fresno's very own
40:46day 300.
40:48Yes, sir.
40:49What's going on, man?
40:50In a recent interview,
40:52a young Bulldog
40:52known as Faye 300
40:53made his thoughts public
40:55on how the Bulldogs
40:56are changing.
40:57If you do your homework
40:58on Bulldogs,
40:59like, we don't even talk
41:00like Mexicans.
41:00Yeah, we talk like
41:01f***s, you feel me?
41:02They act like flags.
41:03Literally.
41:03They don't even act like flags.
41:04Like, even look at
41:05the way we dress.
41:05We look at the way we dress.
41:06We don't dress like f***s,
41:07you feel me?
41:08The younger generation
41:09of Bulldog membership
41:11is very ill-informed
41:13when it comes to
41:14the history of the gang.
41:16But you take pride in that.
41:17You don't give a f***
41:18about keeping with
41:19any Mexican traditions
41:20necessarily?
41:21Nah, I just, you feel me?
41:22We us.
41:23Like, we don't got no...
41:23We just act like us.
41:25They're starting to gravitate
41:26towards their own identity
41:27and failing to accept
41:30and understand
41:31why the gang
41:32was originally formed
41:33and essentially
41:35the goal of the gang,
41:36which is to avoid
41:37that structure.
41:38They told me,
41:39Faye, this life you live,
41:39it just ain't worth it.
41:40Every night I talk to God,
41:42he told me,
41:42Faye, you got a purpose.
41:43He, through his videos,
41:46self-identifies as a member
41:47of the Bulldog Criminal Street gang,
41:50specifically the College Street subset
41:53of the Bulldog gang.
41:55He likes to proclaim
41:58that he's the voice of Fresno.
42:00Now I put this s*** on,
42:01ain't no s*** doing it like me.
42:02We really live in this s***.
42:03I'm really in the hood.
42:04Bro, you don't even bang.
42:05Like, you're not even from the hood.
42:06We know that
42:08that caused controversy
42:09amongst members of the gang
42:11due to the fact that
42:12it was to be a
42:14almost insult
42:15to some of that culture
42:16and had it already been established
42:17by other members of the gang.
42:24There's a massive difference
42:25between the newer generation
42:26and older generation,
42:27but at the end of the day,
42:28they still all identify
42:29as Bulldogs.
42:31You see,
42:32cancerism should be in your heart.
42:34It should be thrown to your veins.
42:36You can't expect to feel
42:38we live to thrive
42:40and we fill up our enemies with land.
42:43They have proven it,
42:45that they're violent.
42:46They can back it up.
42:48They just don't talk the talk.
42:50They walk the walk.
42:52Fresno Bulldogs' future,
42:54they may say it's bright.
42:56We don't like to describe it as such
42:58as far as our law enforcement goes,
43:00but at the end of the day,
43:01their numbers are growing.
43:03The platforms,
43:04whether it be social media,
43:05YouTube,
43:06it allows for that
43:07to be exposed upon people
43:09who have no idea
43:10what the gang is.
43:13And still today,
43:15after 40 years,
43:17California Department of Corrections
43:18doesn't know
43:19what to do with the Bulldogs.
43:20Do not listen to the Bulldogs.
43:21I mean,
43:22the people who have no idea
43:22is the fact that they are
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43:38and to be alone direct제� Cement,
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