Two weeks after federal officials announced charges against members of theA Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in an alleged conspiracy to order murders, sell drugs and smuggle cell phones, new charges have been filed against another prison gang believed to be coordinating methamphetamine sales from a Central Valley prison.
Federal court documents unsealed Tuesday charge 21 defendants a some of them allegedly operating out of their cells at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga a with conspiracy to sell and possess methamphetamine.
The charges, filed in two criminal complaints, are aimed at crippling the operations of the Nuestra Familia gang, which operates out of Pleasant Valley and is believed to be flooding Kings and Tulare counties with sales of methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. The investigation is the latest effort to disrupt the ganga s activities in California, where about 2,500 members of the Norteno street gang ages 12 to 40 are believed to live in Kings County. The latest charges follow an announcement on June 6 by federal officials that they had broken up operations inside other state prisons that included drug sales, cell phone smuggling and orders to kill other inmates and individuals outside of prisons.