More than 80 members of the "cold-blooded" Mexican Mafia have been charged with running a drug operation inside Los Angeles County jails and in the Pomona, Calif., area, authorities said Wednesday. More than 500 law enforcement officers conducted a "major operation" Wednesday morning that resulted in 32 arrests. Leaders of the "gang of gangs," from behind bars, controlled drug dealing and violence both inside jail and on the streets, an indictment claimed. 'MEXICAN MAFIA' CRACKDOWN RESULTS IN 85 ARRESTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"These Mexican Mafia members and associates, working together to control criminal activity within (LA County jails), have become their own entity or enterprise and effectively function as an illegal government," an indictment said. The gang is an organization of "vicious" imprisoned street-level leaders who control drug trafficking operations and order retaliatory violence both inside and outside California prisons and jails.

Source: Fox News May 23, 2018 20:50 UTC