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 Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, 52, is serving three concurrent life
sentences for two counts of second degree murder and a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon.
Brown acknowledged Enriquez's attempts to better himself while in
prison - including his gang informant work for police, expert
testimony at various criminal trials, and informational lectures to
law enforcement organizations - but said they did not outweigh the
risks.
"Because he is a high-profile drop-out targeted by the Mexican
Mafia, Mr. Enriquez's parole poses a serious security risk to him,
his family, his parole agents, and the community in which he is
placed," Brown said in his decision, according to a copy published
online by the Los Angeles Times.
 Enriquez, who joined the Mexican Mafia in 1985 while in prison for
armed robbery and forcible rape, ordered a gang associate to kill a
drug dealer in 1989 while he was on parole because he thought she
was cheating customers, according to the governor's decision.
Seven days after that killing, he carried out a hit against a
Mexican Mafia member who had fallen out of favor by pumping him full
of heroin before driving the man to a deserted area and shooting him
in the head five times, the document said.
While in Los Angeles County Jail in 1991, he and an accomplice
stabbed another inmate 26 times while being held in an attorney
room, the decision said. The victim survived.
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He was involved with the gang for nearly 20 years, during which time
he stabbed other inmates, recruited and trained new members, and
oversaw a violent drug-dealing crew in East Los Angeles, according
to the document.
The Los Angeles Times reported that he defected from the gang in
2002.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Pravin
Char)
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