A multi-agency task force set conducted a gang sweep early Thursday in South Los Angeles.
The task force set up a command post outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum/Sports Arena. Subjects taken into custody were processed in a parking lot.
The operation involves the LAPD and FBI.
The subjects arrested were all members of the Black P Stones, a Bloods set that has controlled drug trafficking in and around the Baldwin Village area for decades, according to authorities. Authorities said the Black P Stones have a reputation for using deadly violence to control their Southwest Los Angeles "turf'' in 1-square-mile Baldwin Village, described for decades by cops on the beat as the "Jungle.''
The arrestees included 16 of 21 people indicted on federal drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic charges, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. The five missing from that group include one suspect in federal custody, one in state custody and three being sought, he said.
Eighty people were arrested during a similar sweep last month that targeted a San Pedro gang. Similar raids this month in Sacramento and Central California ended with more than 30 arrests.
