The Department of Homeland Security led a seven-agency raid Tuesday that disrupted Armenian gang activity in Los Angeles.
Thirteen members of two “dueling” gangs, the “Amiryan Organized Crime Group” and “Artuni Enterprise,” were arrested in the pre-dawn raid, according to Fox News. Twelve arrests were made in California and one in Florida.
Charges against those arrested included attempted murder, kidnapping, and fraud. Court documents said one operation chalked up to the gangs stole $83 million in items from Amazon.
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“What you’re seeing now is part of the [Trump] administration’s priorities,” Bill Essayli, the United States Attorney for the Central District of California, said. “We’re going after transnational criminal organizations, violent and organized crime, going out into the community and getting the most dangerous folks out
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