From the Tacoma News Tribune:
Tacoma police, federal agents and corrections officers served a series of early-morning search warrants today and arrested eight suspected members of a Tacoma street gang accused in a number of violent crimes dating back more than a year.
They continue to search for eight more suspects, Tacoma police reported.
In all, 32 members of the Hilltop Crips have been charged in Pierce County Superior Court with criminal conspiracy and other crimes. Some of them were already in custody; others have been arrested in the past week. Most have prior felony convictions.
Investigators have tied them to robberies, assaults, thefts, drug activity and driveby shootings since mid-2008, police reported. Most of the incidents occurred in the city.
The arrests were part of a joint investigation by the Tacoma Police Department, FBI’s South Sound Gang Task Force and state Department of Corrections.
Was hoping to see you post/comment on this, to get your perspective. Did you catch the article (might have been in this one, even) that included some of the "interesting" quotes and description of the responses by some in the courtroom?