Law enforcement officials took one of the last members of an Anchorage gang into custody on Friday, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Twenty-five-year-old Anchorage resident Delano Williams was one of two men not yet in custody as part of a massive federal indictment alleging drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal firearm possession, and violence by a group with ties to the national Bloods gang.
“U.S. Marshals Service took him into custody at 2:30,” said Staci Feger-Pellessier, public affairs specialist for the FBI in Anchorage. According to Feger-Pellessier, Delano was in Tacoma, where he was arrested without incident.
Officials from several federal, state, and local agencies said during a Thursday press conference the indictment was the result of nearly a year’s worth of coordinated investigations. That multi-agency task force was a convened after a dramatic spike in homicides and shootings across the municipality in January.
Anchorage District Attorney Clint Campion said state cases against some of the men named in the indictment would begin in 2016. Existing criminal records show three men are charged with an attempted murder in May. Another, Michael “Boogie” Reynold is charged with a double-homicide that happened in January in East Anchorage.
The indictment outlines alleged crimes as far back as 2012, with profits from the sale of heroin, crack, and cocaine being laundered through LA-based entertainment companies.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office this is the first federal case against a national gang with a presence in Alaska.
Zachariah Hughes reports on city & state politics, arts & culture, drugs, and military affairs in Anchorage and South Central Alaska.
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