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Zachariah Hughes

Alleged members of neo-Nazi prison gang in Alaska convicted of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy

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.

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