Bureau director Kash Patel said that after three months, around 50 arrests were made, $200,000 in assets were seized, and 10 kilograms of illegal narcotics were recovered.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations dealt a blow to the Latin Kings, a violent street gang, arresting 50 members and seizing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs and assets nationwide.
Kash Patel, the FBI director said on Friday that the agency had implemented “Operation Broken Crown,” engaging in a “sweeping violent gang takedown involving 13 field offices targeting” the street gang, Patel said, adding that its members had been threatening law enforcement officials, according to The Epoch Times.
About $200,000 in assets were seized, and 10 kilograms of illegal narcotics were recovered after three months, the FBI director said in an X post.
For the last 3 months the FBI has quietly executed Operation Broken Crown… a sweeping violent gang takedown involving 13 field offices targeting the Latin Kings Gang – members which were publicly threatening law enforcement officers.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) January 30, 2026
Here’s the public results so far:
-50… pic.twitter.com/NjSxZhT5kP
“We’re breaking the violent gang network in America. This comes after 2025 when the FBI had a 210% increase in gang takedowns of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua,” he wrote, referring to two transnational gangs that were declared as foreign terrorist organizations under the Trump administration last year.
Founded decades ago in Chicago, the Latin Kings is a street and prison gang. The FBI has been targeting them in recent months, including during operations to deport illegal immigrants.
Patel told Fox News in October that officers believe that more than 100,000 residents of Chicago are gang members, coming as he visited the city at the time, and also blamed the city’s high homicide figures on gang members.
“We learned that Chicago’s city streets have 110,000 gang members,” he said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They’ve had 1,200 shootings this year alone and 360 homicides.”
In addition, Homeland Security officials said that Mexican criminal groups “have placed targeted bounties” on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials.
Gang members affiliated with the Latin Kings in Chicago, according to the agency, have sent spotters on rooftops who are equipped with guns and radios.
“These individuals track ICE and CBP movements in real-time, relaying coordinates,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. “This surveillance has enabled ambushes and disruptions during routine enforcement actions, including recent raids under Operation Midway Blitz,” a recent immigration operation in Chicago, it said.
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