5 Year Mob Investigation Ends in Convictions
A five-year investigation into the Irish Mob Gang has led to 125 convictions in multiple federal cases.
Over the course of the investigation, federal, state, and local law enforcement used various investigative tools and techniques, including a dozen court-approved wire taps on phones used by the prison gang network. Officials say more than half of the wire taps were on contraband cell phones smuggled into state prisons that were used to direct trafficking operations.
In addition to convicting 125 gang members and associates, law enforcement seized more than 525 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin, 212 firearms, and $600,000 in drug proceeds and property.
The gang members and associates were convicted of crimes like drug trafficking, drug conspiracy, money laundering, witness retaliation, witness tampering, maintaining drug premises, illegal firearms possession and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.
“This wide-spread drug trafficking operation was primarily directed and controlled by incarcerated gang members using contraband cell phones from their state prison cells,” said United States Attorney Robert J. Troester. “Now, 125 gang members and associates have been held accountable, more than 525 pounds of deadly drugs have been taken off the streets, and 212 firearms have been taken out of the hands of criminals.
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