Federal agents and collaborating law enforcement agencies have made multiple arrests of alleged members of a Mexican Mafia prison gang behind an illegal Southern California gambling network.
Resulting from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Orange County-wide stings, five men face federal charges tied to money laundering, importing meth, and running an illegal gambling network.
Law enforcement officials seized cash, narcotics, firearms, and other evidence as part of a long-running FBI operation investigating the gang’s SoCal crime footprint, CBS 8 cited a San Diego FBI spokesperson as commenting.
netted gambling machines, narcotics, weapons, and large sums of cash
The five arrested Thursday make it 16 in total linked to the Mexican Mafia that have been charged or arrested in connection with the ongoing case that has netted gambling machines, narcotics, weapons, and large sums of cash.
The FBI’s San Diego Field Office Special Agent in Charge Mark Dargis said after Thursday’s arrests that it was the FBI’s top priority to remove “violent criminals from our streets” and seize their resources.
