Five different conspiracies had overlapping players, including people tied to gangs like the Oriental Killer Boys, the Oriental Mob Crips, the Viet Boys, the Tiny Oriental Crips, the Logan Heights Calle Treinta and Linda Vista Crips, according to 10 indictments.
Forty people are in custody and five others charged in an international drug and firearm ring centered in San Diego, according to indictments unsealed Thursday by U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy’s office.
The investigation — dubbed Crystal Palace II — involved city, state and federal agents who gathered evidence for a year in eight sites, including Linda Vista, Midtown, City Heights, Mid City, Clairemont Mesa and Oak Park.
After a three-day gang sweep, agents arrested 40 people and took 52 weapons off the street.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said methamphetamine and drugs were being sold in a number of houses, including an apartment across the street from Hoover High School. Thursday morning, agents seized $47,600 in cash from an Oak Park house, bringing the total amount of seized cash to nearly $60,000.
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