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| 13 Indicted on Gang Related Charges |
| By AP |
| Published: 04/24/2001 |
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A federal grand jury has indicted five inmates and eight other people who allegedly orchestrated killings and other crimes through the Nuestra Familia prison gang, a newspaper reported. The indictments were handed up last week by a grand jury in San Francisco, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported. The 13 people face charges that include murder, conspiracy, racketeering and drug dealing. Five of those indicted are inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, the state's highest security prison. The others are now in custody, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. The suspects are accused of conducting a gang campaign to control a drug trafficking empire stretching from Santa Rosa to Salinas and the Central Valley. Two of those indicted, Rico ``Smiley'' Garcia and Ceasar ``Lobo'' Ramirez, are charged with the 1998 assassination of gang leader Michael ``Mikeo'' Castillo, who once oversaw the gang's drug operations in Sonoma, the newspaper reported. The newspaper said the violence was a result of competition between Nuestra Familia and the Mexican Mafia, another prison gang. |
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