Feds secure new racketeering indictment, link more murders to Salinas gang

SAN JOSE — Federal authorities have secured a new indictment that significantly expands the footprint of racketeering allegations against a Salinas street gang, including linking them to more murder cases than the initial charges from two years ago.

Nine reputed members of the Salinas Acosta Plaza gang, their ages ranging from 19 to 32, were charged with running a criminal gang enterprise out of an East Salinas townhouse complex for which the gang is named. Two defendants from an earlier 2024 criminal grand jury indictment ...