
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, June 16, 1990                   TAG: 9006160090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

166 ARRESTED IN 11-STATE GANG SWEEP

An 11-state sweep targeting street gangs that export drug dealing from California ghettos to other states netted more than 160 arrests, authorities said Friday.

The action, dubbed operation Street Sweep, began Thursday, with hundreds of federal agents and local law officers moving in on members of the Crips and Bloods, violent gangs spawned in poor Southern California neighborhoods.

By midday Friday, 166 arrests had been made, officials said.

Arrests were made in California, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and three other states that weren't identified because warrants were still being served.

Authorities did not detail the quantity of weapons or drugs seized.

More arrests were expected through the weekend, Jack Killorian, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said from Washington, D.C.

by CNB