11.   Another gang member pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and will be sentenced next month.

12.   Ankiel, whose father is serving time in federal prison on drug conspiracy charges, needed to get away.

13.   Another conspiracy charge involved alleged conspiracies with consultants and developers on five projects.

14.   At a pretrial hearing, defense lawyers persuaded a judge here to dismiss the conspiracy charge on grounds that the evidence was insufficient.

15.   Attorney John Hedgepeth, who has often represented defendant Herman Gordon Hutson Jr., said most pimps are a solitary breed and a conspiracy charge is quite unusual.

16.   A conspiracy charge carries a maximum five years sentence and a violation of the neutrality act carries a maximum of three years.

17.   A fifth man, former chief operating officer Bond Fletcher, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.

18.   A former Cisneros aide, John Rosales, was also indicted for making false statements, and another aide, Sylvia Arce-Garcia, faces conspiracy charges.

19.   A co-defendent, Terry Lynn Nichols, is scheduled to go on trial in late September, also on murder and criminal conspiracy charges.

20.   A conspiracy charge was dropped.