Weapons smuggling

ICE HSI, partners arrest 66 Massachusetts gang members on gun and drug charges

Sixty-six alleged gang members from the Boston metropolitan area were indicted in federal court Thursday on multiple charges related to conspiracy to commit murder and fueling a gun and drug pipeline across eastern Massachusetts.

These indictments resulted from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Massachusetts State Police, the police departments of the following Massachusetts communities; Boston, Brockton, Malden, Revere and Everett; and the Sheriff’s departments of Suffolk and Middlesex Counties.