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The charges grow out of an investigation launched by Santa Rosa police nearly four years ago. It expanded to include the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department and other agencies, costing $5 million and uncovering hit lists and other orders prepared in prison and smuggled to gang members on the outside, police say.Santa Rosa police Cmdr. Scott Swanson said Saturday the indictments are intended to strike at the heart of the Nuestra Familia criminal organization and disrupt its operations by removing the leaderships ability to control its street gang Until now, Nuestra Familia had exploited a prison system that allowed gang warlords, guarded and free from the violence that permeates the gang underworld outside, to pass on instructions to thousands of followers.Included were orders to kill errant gang members who betray their trust, directives on how to collect taxes from drug dealers operating within gangcontrolled neighborhoods, and demands for retribution against rival gangs.Its not easy to acknowledge the extent to which these notorious gang leaders communicate with the outside, allowing them to maintain control over criminal activities that are being committed on their behalf, Pelican Bay Warden Joseph McGrath said.

 

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