Dozens Of White Supremacist Gang Members Indicted On Violence, Meth, RICO Charges

By artappraiser on Tue, 02/12/2019 - 8:14pm |

By Matt Shulman @ TalkingPointsMemo.com, Feb. 12

Dozens of members of the Arkansas-based New Aryan Empire, a meth-peddling white supremacist gang that originated in the state’s prison system, were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday, the Justice Department announced.

The charges follow gun and drug-related charges against 44 people in 2017. Some of those defendants, as well as new ones, now face additional charges “involving attempted murder, kidnapping, maiming, and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine,” according to the DOJ press release.

RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and VICAR (the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute) charges were also brought against 17 of the defendants [....]

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