Recently, the FBI and our partners conducted a number of law enforcement operations across the nation to remove suspected violent criminals from the streets as part of our continued efforts to combat violent crime nationally.
In a 70-count indictment, 22 people—many of them members of the Lindo Park Crips gang—were accused of selling many Glock conversion kits, 17 weapons, transferring or having a machinegun, and trafficking drugs like fentanyl, cocaine, and MDMA.
The thorough investigation also involved the execution of other search warrants, which resulted in the discovery of further 62 weapons, ammo, and drugs.
Investigations were performed by the FBI’s Violent Street Gang Task Force and the Arizona Department of Public Safety, with assistance from FBI SWAT units from Phoenix, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and the Phoenix Police Department.
The USMS, DEA, HSI, and the ATF were other cooperating organizations.
In Northern California, three Sonoma County Hells Angels were found guilty of racketeering conspiracy as well as related offenses like murder, assault, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, witness intimidation, and unlawful possession of guns.
The Hells Angels are a violent, multi-national motorcycle gang that has chapters all over the country and collaborates with other Hells Angel chapters to commit a wide range of crimes.
Federal conspiracy charges for the distribution of cocaine, meth, and fentanyl were brought against sixteen individuals in Kansas and Missouri.
The defendants allegedly planned to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine, and one of them was accused of having a Springfield.40-caliber handgun while a felon.
In Georgia, five Gangster Disciples members were charged with the murder of three victims. Additionally, a multi-agency investigation in Waco, Texas, dismantled a meth distribution ring, and an operation in the South Lake Tahoe region seized “ghost” handguns and assault rifles (weapons that are difficult for law enforcement to track owing to absence of serial numbers).