Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The longtime San Diego gang is known for its ruthless violence, from execution-style murders to the shooting of a pregnant woman.
Now U-T San Diego reports that federal authorities nabbed most of the 55 suspected members of the West Coast Crips in pre-dawn raids Thursday, changing them with crimes spanning from murder and armed robberies to prostitution drug dealing.
The suspected mastermind, Randy Alton Graves, was among those arrested.
The crackdown came on the heels of phone surveillance and undercover drug buys, authorities said.
The startling wiretaps reveal that the gangsters “think nothing about murdering rivals in San Diego and they think nothing of executing their own, when their own are even suspected of being disloyal,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said at a news conference.
Seized in the raids were 16 guns, more than 4 pounds of meth, 4,400 pounds of pot and $300,000 in counterfeit money.
