United States: a gang of white supremacists fell after an anti-drug operation

The government of USA carried out described as a ”hard blow” the operation carried out in Californiawhere Dozens of members of a violent white supremacist gang were arrestedwho sold drugs in the area.

Among the objects found in simultaneous raids, They found an arsenal of illegal weapons and powerful drugsamong them fentanylthe synthetic opioid that causes thousands of deaths in the United States, to which Peckerwoods of the San Fernando Valley, a gang that operates near Los Angeles.}

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid widely prescribed in the United States, where it is also is used irresponsiblywhich has led to tens of thousands of cases of addiction and death in many of the country’s communities.

Its illicit marketing is frequently mentioned by politicians such as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who criticizes immigrants who enter through the border with Mexico for selling the drug to Americans.

The prosecutor Martin Estrada stated: “The violent ideology of the Peckerwoods white supremacists and their extensive criminal activity threaten our community.”

“By allegedly aligning himself with everything from drug trafficking to gun crime, identity theft, Covid fraud, and his alliance with a neo-Nazi prison gang, Peckerwoods are a destructive force“he added.

Almost 70 arrested after the anti-drug operation

The operation led to the indictment of 68 peoplefor a series of federal crimes, including conspiracy, drug trafficking, fraud and firearms crimes. This complaint maintains that the Peckerwoods receive orders from the Aryan Brotherhoodthe white supremacist gang present in California prisons, and has an agreement with the Mexican mafia, also with a presence in prisons, which controls a good part of the Latino gangs in the west coast state.

The Peckerwoods have Nazi tattoos and iconography, such as swastikas and the number 88 (H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so this is code for “Heil Hitler,” the salute to Adolf Hitler.)

U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said he called the Justice Department’s operation a “decisive blow.”