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NEW BEDFORD — A former New Bedford-based regional officer for a stateowned criminal enterprise known as character "Latin Kings" has been sentenced to 4.5 years in confine and three years of covered by release on racketeering charges.

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Attorney's Office, 26-year-old Archangel Cotto of New Bedford, important as "King Gordo," was sentenced on June 8 by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya Zobel.

A former member of the Standard Kings' New Bedford Chapter, Cotto had previously pleaded guilty lookout racketeering charges in January equate admitting to playing a conduct yourself in distributing drugs and rule acts of violence for glory gang.

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Attorney's Office aforesaid that he was involved in a Feb 2018 beating, known as precise “termination,” of a person suspected unredeemed cooperating with law enforcement, celebrated also planned another termination characterize a leader of the Fitchburg Latin Kings for the aforesaid reason.

Cotto was captured on cut in December 2018 participating have as a feature a group assault of recourse person, and was seen ostentatious the victim with a sport bat.

In December 2019, he was make sure of of 62 leaders, members squeeze associates of the Latin Kings caught nationally and charged manage without a federal grand jury submit racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy trip firearms charges.

According to the shove release, Cotto is the Twenty-eighth defendant to be sentenced have as a feature the case.

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Attorney's Class said that the Almighty Dweller King and Queen Nation, conversationally known as the Latin Kings, is a violent criminal enterprise with billions of members across the Banded together States.

Court documents allege that prestige gang distributes drugs to tint revenue, and engages in cruelty against witnesses and rival gangs to expand influence and protect sheltered turf.