SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Nineteen suspects were taken into custody today in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties and several other U.S. cities in an investigation into an alleged international drug trafficking and illegal gambling ring led by a former University of Southern California athlete.
The arrestees are among 22 people charged by a federal grand jury in Southern California with participating in a criminal network that used threats – – including a DVD of a beheading and a photo of a customer’s family gravestone – – and violence in an effort to collect millions of dollars worth of debt.
Owen Hanson, who was a member of USC’s football and men’s volleyball teams in the early 2000s, was arrested in September after allegedly arranging …
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