Feds arrest 42 alleged members of violent white supremacist gang

Federal officials connected Wednesday announced the arrest of 42 alleged members and associates of the convulsive achromatic supremacist SFV Peckerwoods gang based successful California, charging them with a scope of crimes including racketeering, firearms and cause trafficking, slope fraud, individuality theft and different felonies.

They were among a full of 68 radical charged successful a 76-count indictment unsealed Wednesday arsenic those arrested were arraigned successful U.S. District Court successful downtown Los Angeles.

All but 13 who remained astatine large were either arrested Wednesday oregon already successful custody, reported California’s Victorville Daily Press.

The radical is deemed a home panic enactment that’s aligned with the Aryan Brotherhood.

The SFV Peckerwoods person been affiliated with different organized transgression groups based successful California prisons, including an confederation with the Mexican Mafia situation gang, the attorney’s bureau said. They usage “Nazi tattoos, graffiti, and iconography to bespeak their convulsive achromatic supremacy extremist ideology,” including swastikas and the “88” awesome that denotes allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

“What genuinely distinguishes them, what defines them is their hatred and their animus toward racial, taste and spiritual minorities,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada for the Central District of California said successful a statement, calling the radical a “grave menace to our community” and “a destructive force.”

The pack besides focused connected making money, some by selling drugs and by stealing identities and defrauding banks. They robbed cause dealers and conducted “smash and grab” merchandise heists, prosecutors said.

Law enforcement officers investigating the gang’s alleged activities besides seized “large quantities” of amerciable firearms arsenic good arsenic dozens of pounds of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin, the indictment stated.