ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Five members of a white supremacist prison gang were found guilty Monday in an Anchorage federal court of crimes connected with 2017 kidnappings, assaults and a murder in Alaska.
The group was prosecuted together because their crimes were part of their affiliation with the 1488s, a “violent prison-based gang” organized around neo-Nazi symbols and ideology, lawyers with the Justice Department alleged.
The gang operated both inside and out of correctional facilities, prosecutors say.