Kansas Gang Member Sentenced For Racketeering
Associated Press - Tue 08:37 AM 01/29/2013
Four others are awaiting trial. They were among 23 people who were charged under the federal racketeering laws.
A Dodge City gang member was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after a fight between gang members.
Twenty-year-old Humberto Ortiz was arrested as part of a federal racketeering case targeting gang members.
Ortiz was sentenced Monday to three years and 10 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier to assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering.
Federal prosecutors say Ortiz admitted that he and other gang members assaulted people they thought were members of another gang in Dodge City in August 2011.
Ortiz admitted his gang, the Nortenos, was part of a continuing criminal enterprise that used violence, including murder and robbery.
Four others are awaiting trial. They were among 23 people who were charged under the federal racketeering laws.
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Iamgonnagetyou
Tuesday 29 January 2013 13:06 Report this comment
Dodge City has become little Mexico. Probably this guy was not legal to begin with and maybe our govenor needs to put his attention to cleaning up Dodge City of all the illegal m exicans.