POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday will give an update to a yearlong investigation.
The sheriff’s office said the news conference at 11 a.m. is a follow-up to its “Sex Money Murder” gang racketeering investigation that was first announced in 2022.
In April 2022, Judd announced that 41 suspects in the gang faced charges.
According to Judd, Polk and its neighboring counties experienced a string of home invasion robberies and other violent crimes associated with members of “Sex Money Murder” from 2018-20, including two shooting deaths that the sheriff singled out as examples of why the investigation was necessary.
“Those were the first two cases in over a decade that our homicide team was not able to solve. Do you know why? No one’s talking. They’re either gang-related and/or they’re scared to death of the gangsters,” Judd said in 2022.
News 6 will stream the news conference live at the top of this story.