NEWS BRIEF: Feds arrest two gang members in Atlanta in national crackdown

Two members of a gang known as the Folk Nation Gangster Disciples were arrested in Atlanta Thursday and charged with “violent crimes in-aid-of racketeering — including attempted murder and related firearms offenses,” according to a 20-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn, NY.Lorenzo Bailey and Quincy Battice are scheduled to be arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Catherine M. Salinas at the federal courthouse in Atlanta. Another nine gang members were simultaneously arrested elsewhere in the country as part of joint state-federal effort to dismantle violent gangs. justice.gov