Mexican Mafia smuggled heroin with Pringles, secret code and L.A. jail deputy, records say
LA TimesEven after it was deciphered, the coded message from jail seemed strange. It was Meiser and Munguia’s job to investigate these “shot-callers” by listening to their phone calls, monitoring surveillance cameras within the jail and interviewing informants, Munguia told internal investigators. Is that correct?” Munguia said he didn’t agree with the approach, which he claimed he learned from Meiser, but “the way I was taught was, like, it had to be done.” Starting in February 2024, investigators from an FBI task force noticed a series of strange phone calls made by Triplett and Rodriguez, according to the internal affairs report. Munguia told internal investigators it was unlike Meiser to ask a favor of the deputy, whom Meiser “hated.” The deputy told Meiser he wasn’t at the jail and couldn’t do it. “Are they being f—ing serious?” In Meiser’s bag, internal affairs detectives found two envelopes containing $15,000, according to the report.
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