68 white supremacists hit with 76 counts of drug trafficking, COVID-19 fraud

Sixty-eight alleged California white supremacists have been charged with drug trafficking, weapons violations and COVID-19 mortgage fraud, in keeping with a federal indictment.

The members of the San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods, a California-based white supremacist avenue gang, have been hit with a 76-count federal grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday, dealing their years-long prison enterprise a “decisive blow,” mentioned Legal professional Common Merrick B. Garland.

Garland claimed the membership is liable for “trafficking lethal fentanyl and different medicine, committing robberies and perpetrating monetary fraud to fund each their prison enterprise and that of the Aryan Brotherhood.” 

Gang members allegedly made a killing by means of identity-theft schemes and monetary fraud, together with bogus purposes for Paycheck Safety Program funds — meant to help small companies impacted by the pandemic — for those that have been locked up.

Their prison actions observe again to a minimum of December 2016, in keeping with the indictment.

Over the course of the investigation, legislation enforcement officers seized unlawful firearms and dozens of kilos of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin, the courtroom submitting particulars.

The Peckerwoods at occasions take orders from the Aryan Brotherhood, California’s most important prison-based white supremacist gang, and likewise has an alliance with the Mexican Mafia jail gang, which controls most Latino avenue gangs within the Golden State, the indictment fees.

They used social media to share info and goal individuals who violated the group’s guidelines.

If convicted, the defendants might serve as much as life in jail.