Government Charges 4 Philadelphia Men with RICO
Thursday, June 30, 2011
PHILADELPHIA—United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, FBI Special Agent-in- Charge George Venizelos, and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, today announced the unsealing of a second superseding indictment1 against Kaboni Savage, Robert Merritt, Steven Northington, and Kidada Savage, charging each with conspiring to participate in a long-term, large-scale violent drug trafficking enterprise that operated primarily in the North Philadelphia area from at least late 1997 to 2010 (“RICO” conspiracy). The second superseding indictment alleges that Kidada Savage participated in the plot to firebomb and murder the six members of federal witness Eugene Coleman’s family on October 9, 2004, while federal charges... Read more →