Federal Grand Jury Indicts 12 in Indianapolis 'Crown Hill Enterprise' on 28 RICO Counts

Overview

• A federal grand jury returned a 28-count superseding RICO indictment charging 12 people with murder, kidnapping, assault, arson, drug trafficking, and illegal firearms offenses Friday, and several defendants made initial federal court appearances that day.
• Court documents allege the group ran at least 11 'trap houses' across Indianapolis from early 2019 through December 2024 to sell heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine.
• The indictment details specific violent acts that prosecutors say protected the operation, including a November 2024 killing tied to a drug-house dispute, a leg shot over a $40 drug debt, pistol-whippings, a kidnapping, and an April 23, 2024 attack with gunfire and Molotov cocktails.
• Investigators from the FBI, ATF, and Indianapolis police executed court-authorized searches that seized 35 firearms, a machine-gun conversion device, drugs, and cash which prosecutors say helped link defendants to the enterprise.
• The charges use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law to treat alleged crimes as part of a single criminal enterprise and signal prosecutors will seek to dismantle the network while separate state proceedings, including a Marion County murder case, remain pending.