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Jose Landa-Rodriguez, a reputed Mexican Mafia member known as “Fox,” pleaded no contest in Los Angeles County Superior Court to making criminal threats.

Incarcerated since 1998, Landa-Rodriguez will serve seven more years in U.S. prison before accepting deportation to Mexico.

To hear prosecutors tell it, Jose Landa-Rodriguez was public enemy No. 1.

A reputed Mexican Mafia member called “Fox,” Landa-Rodriguez was charged in three cases between 2011 and 2018. The allegations included a murder plot, overseeing rackets in the Los Angeles County jails and pursuing an alliance between his U.S. prison gang and a drug cartel from his home state of Michoacán.

Landa-Rodriguez, 60, was acqu

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