WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten members and associates of a Southwest border gang have been charged in the United States in the murders a year ago of a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and another man in Juarez, Mexico.
A grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, revealed federal charges against 35 people in all, allegedly linked to the Barrio Azteca gang, including the 10 charged in the murders.
The indictment details a criminal enterprise that began in the late 1980s as a violent prison gang, which then expanded into a group of murderers and drug traffickers who operate on both sides of U.S.-Mexico border.