Among the 35 who were indicted, several came from Frederick and from affluent Howard County, more suburban areas not often associated with violent gang crime, the U.S. State’s Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said.”No community is immune from gangs,” Col. Kim Dine, chief of the Frederick Police Department told a Baltimore news conference announcing the indictment.The indictment charged 27 defendants with conspiracy and racketeering, while others were charged with selling illegal drugs including heroin, crack cocaine and prescription drugs.Among those indicted was Andre Ricardo Roach, the reputed leader of Maryland’s Bloods, known as the South Side Brims Bloods, who is already serving a 50-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.The investigation began two years ago when Frederick police discovered a roster listing more than 100 gang members while responding to a stabbing in a motel parking lot.Law enforcement authorities began monitoring communication among Bloods groups statewide and speaking with informants.Not only did gang members communicate by telephone and e-mail but they could be seen on YouTube videos, MySpace and Facebook profiles flashing gang signs, throwing cash around and using their street names, according to court documents.”It’s a tremendous source of intelligence,” said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein at the news conference in Baltimore. “But it makes the job harder because there’s more work to do.”

The company expects total construction cost to be about 90 billion yen ($1.17 billion), the daily said.The combined output capacity of the two plants will be 1 million kilowatts, which is roughly equivalent to a single nuclear reactor, the Nikkei reported.One of the plants, a 200,000 KW facility, will be built solely by Mistubishi at a cost of about 20 billion yen and is expected to be operational in July 2012, the daily said.The other, a 800,000 KW facility, will be constructed jointly by Mitsubishi, General Electric Co and an American developer, the paper reported.Mitsubishi will hold a 50 percent stake in this plant, which is expected to go onstream in August 2013, the Nikkei said.Both plants are to supply power to a major California utility for 10 years, the daily said.

Several of Bush’s former advisers have joined Romney’s team, including several of the Republican president’s top economics advisers.