Leader of Texas Crime Gang Sentenced to Life in Prison
Sunday, 24 August 2008
by Jim Kouri, CPP

The first defendant to be sentenced in the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) case charging 14 members of the violent Texas Syndicate prison gang with conspiring to participate in a violent enterprise responsible for murders, attempted murders, conspiracies to commit murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and other crimes in North Texas and other areas, was sentenced in federal court in Dallas.
Roy Arredondo, Jr., a/k/a “West,â€