64 white supremacists in North Texas sentenced in federal investigation [View all]
Sixty-four people belonging to white supremacist gangs were sentenced recently to a combined 820 years in federal prison, the U.S. attorneys office for the Northern District of Texas announced Friday.
The mass sentencing caps an investigation that began in 2014 and included 153 total defendants tied to white supremacist gangs, said Erin Dooley, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorneys office. In 2017, 89 of those defendants were convicted and sentenced to a combined 1,070 years in federal prison.
In the second round, the remaining 64 suspects were charged in 2018. The last defendant in the second round, 51-year-old Garry Cody Jones, was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in federal prison on a drug charge.
In addition to drug and firearms charges, several defendants kidnapped, threatened and assaulted people who they believed had stolen drug money.
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