SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : 5 Alleged Drug Gang Members Plead Not Guilty
Five alleged members of a drug gang that authorities said supplied much of the San Fernando Valley with cocaine in recent years pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges Monday and were ordered held on $2-million bail each.
The four men and one woman charged in the case are members of the Valley Boys drug gang, according to authorities who arrested them last week and seized 31 pounds of cocaine. The group is suspected of selling cocaine, marijuana and steroids to dozens of street dealers in the Valley, Glendale and Simi Valley in recent years.
Other alleged members of the group were arrested in March.
One man who pleaded not guilty Monday was Carlos Edward Rivera, a 6-foot-5 former Cal State Northridge All-California football player.
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