Press Release
For Immediate Release
August 27, 2010
Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending August 27, 2010

Los Angeles: Forty-One Members and Associates of Pueblo Bishops Charged in Federal Racketeering Indictment

More than 1,000 FBI agents and LAPD officers executed arrest warrants and search warrants Wednesday after a two-year investigation into the Pueblo Bishops Bloods, a street gang that controls the Pueblo del Rio housing project in South Los Angeles. Authorities arrested 19 defendants who are named in a sweeping racketeering indictment that was returned last week by a federal grand jury. Additionally, 10 people were taken into custody on various state offenses. Several defendants named in the indictment were already in custody on unrelated charges. The investigation into the Pueblo Bishops was called Operation “Family Tiesâ€