“The goal is to dismantle the hierarchy,' Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. “We have just begun to arrest gangsters in this investigation.”
Sheriff Grady Judd speaks to the media about a multiagency, yearlong gang racketeering investigation. – A Florida sheriff said Wednesday that 41 people have been charged with dozens of crimes in an effort to take down the leadership of a notoriously violent group called the Sex Money Murder gang.
“The goal is to dismantle the hierarchy," Judd said. “We have just begun to arrest gangsters in this investigation.” Judd said there are 121 felony charges so far against the alleged gang members. Those include racketeering, drug sales, robberies, smuggling of contraband into prisons, murder conspiracy and other charges. Some charges could result in life prison sentences.
More than $1.5 million in illicit drugs was also seized, including methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms, oxycodone and, most deadly of all, fentanyl. Eighteen guns and more than $17,000 in currency was also confiscated.
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