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Gang members detained

Published:Friday | September 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM
US attorney Zane Memeger (centre) with FBI Special Agent in Charge George Venizelos (left), and DEA acting Special Agent in Charge Vito Guarino, speaks during a media availability at the Department of Justice in Philadelphia yesterday.
SAN JUAN, (AP):

Federal agents in Puerto Rico have arrested 22 alleged members of a gang responsible for at least 10 homicides across the United States territory.

Local FBI Director Joseph Campbell says agents are looking for another five suspects. He said yesterday that additional suspects are being arrested in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

He said the suspects face a grand jury indictment on charges including possession and distribution of cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana.

Puerto Rico faces what it expects to be a record number of killings this year.

Police say 860 people have been killed so far this year, compared with 724 people reported killed in the same period last year.