Forty-two members of what prosecutors call a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist gang have been arrested in connection with a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, Oct. 2, alleging a years-long criminal operation that included drug trafficking, weapons violations and loan fraud.

Prosecutors said the San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist gang has been allied with the Aryan Brotherhood and Mexican Mafia.

In a significant crackdown on organized crime, federal authorities have indicted nearly 68 members and associates of the SFV

(CN) — Over five dozen members of a Southern California white supremacist street gang with ties to the state’s most prolific prison-based gangs were indicted on a slew of drug trafficking, fraud and violent crime charges on Wednesday, the Justice Department announced.

Federal indictment accuses 68 alleged members and affiliates of the Peckerwoods white supremacist gang of selling drugs and committing fraud.

Federal and local law enforcement officials announced court filings and arrests related to an organized crime ring in Los Angeles run by a neo-Nazi group affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said that the bust being announced Wednesday morning is one of the “largest takedowns in the history of the Department of