MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO/CBS Minnesota) – Federal and local officials announced charges against a dozen people associated with a Minneapolis gang involved in drug trafficking Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said five people are charged federally and seven others face state charges. Rosen said they are all associated with a gang known as ‘Family Mob’ and are “important players in the open-air drug market of south Minneapolis along Lake Street.”
Officials from the FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Drug Enforcement Administration are held a joint news conference to announce the charges.
“Since the 1990s, this gang has conspired to deliver deadly narcotics to our neighborhoods and ushered in violence to aid in the efforts to claim control over their so-called territory,” Interim FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick Evanchec said.
Evanchec said he expects all 12 charged to be in custody by the end of the day.
Earlier on Wednesday, the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office said it was “executing search and arrest warrants this morning throughout the Twin Cities area in connection with a violent drug trafficking organization.” Evanchec said authorities executed 14 warrants to seize narcotics, guns and other evidence.
The charges come from a U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota that has seen a wave of career prosecutors depart over objections to Trump administration directives.
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