A federal grand jury has indicted 13 members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang, accusing the leaders of orchestrating killings and other crimes as inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, police said Saturday.
The 25-count indictment was handed down Thursday by a federal grand jury in San Francisco that has heard testimony for the past year, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported. The indictments were unsealed Friday, and all 13 people accused of crimes are now behind bars, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department.
Five of those indicted are housed at Pelican Bay in Crescent City, the state's highest security prison. They and the eight others indicted face charges that include murder, conspiracy, racketeering and drug dealing. The gang members are accused of carrying out the crime campaign to control a drug trafficking empire stretching from Santa Rosa to Salinas and the Central Valley.
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