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Grand jury adds more charges to E-Block gang members
The Mahoning County Grand Jury on Thursday handed up a superceding indicment bringing new charges against alleged members of a violent Youngstown street gang known as E-Block.
The new indictment adds 19 new firearm and drug charges to the 20 original counts outlined in last week's secret indictment of 11 men.
Assistant county prosecutor Martin Desmond says the new charges were filed after investigators found heroin and firearms as the suspects were being rounded-up by authorities.
Until their arrests on Wednesday, Tawuan Gordon and Derrick Roderick where the only two suspects still sought by authorities. The suspects were arraigned in Mahoning County Common Pleas court on Wednesday.
During a press conference held Tuesday at the offices of the Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force, authorities displayed a grenade launcher and other firearms confiscated during it's investigation.
Investigators say the E-Block gang was involved in street level drug trafficking and acts of violence in and around the West side of Youngstown.
