DOJ charges dozens of neo-Nazi gang members

The Los Angeles ABC affiliate reports:

Forty-two members of what prosecutors call a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist gang have been arrested in connection with a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday alleging a yearslong criminal operation that included drug trafficking, gun violations and COVID-19 and loan fraud.

Twenty-nine people named in the indictment were arrested Wednesday in a series of raids involving Los Angeles police and other agencies, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Thirteen other suspects were already in custody, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said the gang has ties to the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia, and that its members “use Nazi tattoos, graffiti and iconography to signify their violent white supremacist extremist ideology.”

Los Angeles Fox affiliate reports:

A total of 68 defendants are named in the 76 indictments, which allege crimes including conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

The gang’s “violent white supremacist ideology and broad criminal activities pose a serious threat to our community,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement announcing the charges.

“By allegedly involved in everything from drug trafficking to gun crimes, identity theft and COVID fraud, and through their alliance with a neo-Nazi prison gang, the gang is a destructive force.”

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