Anaheim : Probe of Racist Group Leads to Arraignments
About 30 people were arraigned Monday on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics sales after a monthlong investigation targeting a white supremacist group, Anaheim police said.
Police used a SWAT team at three locations and served warrants at two other locations in the raids Thursday night and Friday morning, Anaheim Lt. Stephen Sain said.
About 100 Anaheim officers participated in the operation.
Besides arresting seven members of a white supremacist group, police confiscated a “substantial quantity†of methamphetamines and several weapons, Sain said.
The suspects range in age from 18 to the mid-40s, he said.
Sain said the arrests followed an investigation by detectives and the special operations division.
“Everybody seemed to have a little bit of information on different people, but nobody was working together,†Sain said.
Many of the suspects were found to be stealing from each other at times during the investigation, Sain said.
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