Imprisoned gang members used contraband cellphones to orchestrate kidnappings, drive-by shootings and murders of people who threatened their $50 million-a-year drug trafficking operation
Federal prosecutors indicted 40 suspected members of Insane Gangster Disciples gang in South Carolina s largest-ever racketeering conspiracy case
Four of the suspects are accused of orchestrating murders, kidnappings and drive-by shootings, and running $50million-a-year drug empire from prison
Prosecutors say jailed defendants relied on contraband cellphones to order hits and coordinate methamphetamine trafficking
James Man Man Peterson, who is serving 30-year sentence for murder, is accused of ordering killing of Michelle Dodge
Dodge, 27, was kidnapped, waterboarded and shot in the back of the head in July 2019 because Peterson suspected her of being a police informant
South Carolina prison inmates ordered murders and kidnappings using contraband phones, feds say
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Federal authorities have indicted 40 people in what they say is South Carolina s largest racketeering conspiracy case in history, stemming from four state inmates orchestrating hits and trafficking drugs by using contraband cellphones while behind bars. The U.S. Attorney in South Carolina called it a sprawling criminal enterprise.
The 147 counts in the indictment range from drug and firearm charges to those related to a murder, a kidnapping and two drive-by shootings, prosecutors said Thursday at a news conference outside of Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. The crimes occurred between 2017 and this year.