Prosecutors said former policemen Reggie Wright Sr. and his son Reggie Wright Jr. were some of 22 Grape Street Crips gang members and associates responsible for running a heroin, cocaine, meth and marijuana pipeline from Los Angeles to another gang in Memphis, Tennessee. Authorities arrested them last week.
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Wright Sr. was featured in the documentary "Biggie and Tupac," which looked at life and deaths of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Wright Sr. worked in a gang unit for the Compton Police Department before he retired from the LA County Sheriff's Department in 2014.
Wright Jr. was a Compton police officer before leaving to work for Suge Knight and Death Row Records.
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Knight is currently awaiting trial on murder charges after he barreled his truck into two men in a Compton parking lot. He plead not guilty.
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